Walton Hills, OH
How exposed is Walton Hills to wildfire?
USFS scores Walton Hills at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,451 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walton Hills at the 31st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Walton Hills's buildings actually sit
Of Walton Hills's 1,451 counted buildings, 82.8% carry Direct exposure and only 17.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Walton Hills compares
Within Ohio, Walton Hills ranks higher (65th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walton Hills ranks 22,101 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 445 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
Walton Hills's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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 Walton Hills
Walton Hills's 82.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,451 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Walton Hills. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Walton Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.