Worthington, OH
Worthington, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Worthington sits at the 10th 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 6,362 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Worthington at the 12th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Where Worthington's buildings actually sit
63.5% of Worthington's 6,362 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 16.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 6,362 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Worthington ranks
Compare Worthington's two percentiles: 31st within Ohio, only 10th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Worthington ranks 28,443 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,720 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 868 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Worthington
Worthington's low wildfire rating (10th 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
Worthington's 63.5% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,362 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Worthington. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Worthington, see the exposure-zones guide.