Valley Hi, OH
How exposed is Valley Hi to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Valley Hi lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 134 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Valley Hi at the 20th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
94% of Valley Hi's 134 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 126 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Valley Hi ranks
Compare Valley Hi's two percentiles: 50th within Ohio, only 20th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valley Hi ranks 25,381 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,558 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 633 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Valley Hi
At the 20th national percentile, Valley Hi 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
Valley Hi's 94% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Valley Hi's 25,381-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Valley Hi, see the exposure-zones guide.