Valley View, OH
Valley View wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Valley View at the 31st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,444 actual buildings. (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 View at the 32nd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Valley View: 57.1% of its 1,444 buildings, versus 3.3% Indirect and 39.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Valley View compares
Compare Valley View's two percentiles: 68th within Ohio, only 31st nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valley View ranks 21,694 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,414 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 403 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Valley View
At the 31st national percentile, Valley View rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 57.1% of Valley View 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,444 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Valley View. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Valley View, see the exposure-zones guide.