Arlington, OH
How exposed is Arlington to wildfire?
Arlington's 757 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Arlington at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 92.2% of Arlington's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Arlington ranks
There's little gap between Arlington's 2nd national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arlington ranks 30,929 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,046 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,104 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Arlington
At the 2nd national percentile, Arlington rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Arlington
Arlington's 92.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Arlington's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Arlington, see the exposure-zones guide.