Vaughnsville, OH
How exposed is Vaughnsville to wildfire?
Vaughnsville's 178 buildings earn a 0th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Vaughnsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 0th percentile nationally.
Vaughnsville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 92.1% of Vaughnsville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Vaughnsville compares
Vaughnsville scores 0th nationally and 2nd within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vaughnsville ranks 31,441 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,722 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,245 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Vaughnsville
Vaughnsville's low wildfire rating (0th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Vaughnsville
With 92.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Vaughnsville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 178 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Vaughnsville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vaughnsville, see the exposure-zones guide.