Thurston, OH
Thurston wildfire risk explained
Thurston's 336 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Thurston at the 8th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Thurston's buildings actually sit
Thurston rates 79.2% Minimal exposure against just 20.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 336 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Thurston ranks
Within Ohio, Thurston ranks higher (28th percentile) than it does nationally (7th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Thurston ranks 29,357 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,682 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 915 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Thurston
Thurston's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Thurston
Thurston's 79.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Thurston's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Thurston, see the exposure-zones guide.