Walnut Creek, OH
Walnut Creek wildfire risk explained
Walnut Creek's 595 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walnut Creek at the 42nd national percentile — 3 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
595 buildings are counted in Walnut Creek, and 70.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Walnut Creek compares
Walnut Creek's 86th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 39th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walnut Creek ranks 19,170 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,900 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 183 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Walnut Creek and the insurance market
At the 39th national percentile, Walnut Creek 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 70.3% of Walnut Creek 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.
Where Walnut Creek's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 595 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Walnut Creek. The exposure-zones guide covers what Walnut Creek's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.