Wilkshire Hills, OH
Wilkshire Hills, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Wilkshire Hills at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,248 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilkshire Hills at the 36th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Where Wilkshire Hills's buildings actually sit
Of Wilkshire Hills's 1,248 counted buildings, 70.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Wilkshire Hills compares
Wilkshire Hills's 75th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 35th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilkshire Hills ranks 20,649 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,359 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 316 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Wilkshire Hills and the insurance market
Wilkshire Hills's moderate rating (35th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Wilkshire Hills's 70.8% 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.
Where Wilkshire Hills's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,248 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wilkshire Hills. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wilkshire Hills's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.