Washingtonville, OH
Washingtonville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Washingtonville lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 454 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 Washingtonville at the 32nd percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 59.5% of Washingtonville's 454 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 40.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Washingtonville against the rest of the country
Compare Washingtonville's two percentiles: 72nd within Ohio, only 33rd nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Washingtonville ranks 21,283 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,199 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 361 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
Washingtonville's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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
Because 59.5% of Washingtonville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Washingtonville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Washingtonville's 21,283-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Washingtonville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.