Turpin Hills, OH
Turpin Hills wildfire risk explained
Turpin Hills's 1,883 buildings earn a 15th-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 Turpin Hills at the 17th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Turpin Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Turpin Hills: 89.3% of its 1,883 buildings, versus 10.6% Indirect and 0.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Turpin Hills compares
Compare Turpin Hills's two percentiles: 43rd within Ohio, only 15th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Turpin Hills ranks 26,830 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,813 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 726 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Turpin Hills's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 89.3% of Turpin Hills 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Turpin Hills's 26,830-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Turpin Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.