Verona, OH
How exposed is Verona to wildfire?
Verona's 321 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Verona at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 78.5% of Verona's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 21.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Verona compares
Verona scores 2nd nationally and 12th 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, Verona ranks 30,969 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,070 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,120 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Verona and the insurance market
Verona's low wildfire rating (2nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Verona's 78.5% 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.
Where Verona's figures come from
Verona's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Verona's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.