Vincent, OH
Vincent wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Vincent lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 223 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 Vincent at the 43rd percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where Vincent's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 54.7% of Vincent's 223 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Vincent compares
Compare Vincent's two percentiles: 91st within Ohio, only 41st nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vincent ranks 18,476 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,026 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 113 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Vincent and the insurance market
Vincent's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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 Vincent
Vincent's 54.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 223 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Vincent. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Vincent, see the exposure-zones guide.