Alliance, OH
How exposed is Alliance to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Alliance lands at the 32nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 10,312 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alliance's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
Alliance's building exposure, zone by zone
Alliance rates 88.2% Minimal exposure against just 11.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 10,312 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 10,312 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Alliance compares
Compare Alliance's two percentiles: 71st within Ohio, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alliance ranks 21,375 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,551 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 372 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Alliance and the insurance market
Alliance's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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
Alliance's 88.2% 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.
Where Alliance's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,312 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Alliance. The exposure-zones guide covers what Alliance's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.