Amesville, OH
Amesville, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Amesville at the 44th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 132 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 Amesville at the 45th percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Amesville's buildings (65.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Amesville against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Amesville ranks higher (96th percentile) than it does nationally (44th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Amesville ranks 17,595 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,639 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 54 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Amesville's elevated rating (44th 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
Because 65.9% of Amesville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Amesville's 17,595-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Amesville, see the exposure-zones guide.