Wilberforce, OH
Wilberforce wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wilberforce lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 405 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wilberforce's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
Where Wilberforce's buildings actually sit
405 buildings are counted in Wilberforce, and 69.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 30.4% rated Minimal.
How Wilberforce compares
Compare Wilberforce's two percentiles: 30th within Ohio, only 9th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilberforce ranks 28,819 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,123 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 886 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Wilberforce and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, Wilberforce rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Wilberforce
Wilberforce's 69.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wilberforce's 28,819-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wilberforce, see the exposure-zones guide.