Aurora, OH
Aurora, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Aurora lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 6,779 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 Aurora at the 32nd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 54.3% of Aurora's 6,779 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.5% Direct and 0.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 6,779 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Aurora against the rest of the country
Aurora's 67th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 31st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aurora ranks 21,780 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,551 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 414 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
Aurora's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Aurora's 54.3% 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 Aurora's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,779 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Aurora. The exposure-zones guide covers what Aurora's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.