Whitehouse, OH
Whitehouse, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Whitehouse's 2,295 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Whitehouse's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Whitehouse's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 29% of Whitehouse's 2,295 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 65.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Whitehouse compares
Compare Whitehouse's two percentiles: 28th within Ohio, only 7th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Whitehouse ranks 29,198 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,707 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 909 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whitehouse
Whitehouse's low wildfire rating (7th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 65.4% of Whitehouse outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,295 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Whitehouse. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Whitehouse, see the exposure-zones guide.