Thornport, OH
Thornport wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Thornport at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 952 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Thornport at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Thornport's buildings (83.1% of 952) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Thornport against the rest of the country
Compare Thornport's two percentiles: 40th within Ohio, only 14th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Thornport ranks 27,271 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,297 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 758 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Thornport and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Thornport rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Thornport's 83.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Thornport's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Thornport's 27,271-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Thornport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.