Van Buren, OH
Van Buren, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Van Buren lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 239 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 Van Buren at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Van Buren's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 97.1% of Van Buren's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Van Buren ranks
Van Buren's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (3rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Van Buren ranks 30,715 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,506 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,065 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
At the 3rd national percentile, Van Buren rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Van Buren
Van Buren's 97.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Van Buren's 3rd-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 Van Buren, see the exposure-zones guide.