Wightmans Grove, OH
Wightmans Grove, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wightmans Grove sits at the 6th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 70 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wightmans Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Wightmans Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 24.3% of Wightmans Grove's 70 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 75.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Wightmans Grove against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Wightmans Grove ranks higher (27th percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wightmans Grove ranks 29,517 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 924 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Wightmans Grove and the insurance market
Wightmans Grove's low wildfire rating (6th 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 Wightmans Grove
Wightmans Grove's 75.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wightmans Grove's 29,517-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wightmans Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.