Taylor Creek, OH
Taylor Creek wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Taylor Creek at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,971 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Taylor Creek's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Taylor Creek's building exposure, zone by zone
1,971 buildings are counted in Taylor Creek, and 83.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Taylor Creek compares
Taylor Creek's 44th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 16th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Taylor Creek ranks 26,479 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,560 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 705 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Taylor Creek
At the 16th national percentile, Taylor Creek rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Taylor Creek
With 83.2% of Taylor Creek in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Taylor Creek's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Taylor Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.