Adelphi, OH
Adelphi wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Adelphi lands at the 36th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 271 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Adelphi at the 38th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Adelphi (74.2% of 271 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 25.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Adelphi ranks
Within Ohio, Adelphi ranks higher (79th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Adelphi ranks 20,267 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,478 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 272 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Adelphi and the insurance market
At the 36th national percentile, Adelphi rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Adelphi's 74.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Adelphi's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Adelphi's 20,267-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Adelphi's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.