Austinburg, OH
Austinburg, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Austinburg at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 346 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Austinburg at the 36th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Austinburg's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 63.9% of Austinburg's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 36.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 221 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Austinburg against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Austinburg ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (35th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Austinburg ranks 20,465 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,429 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 297 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Austinburg and the insurance market
Austinburg's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Austinburg (63.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Austinburg's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Austinburg, see the exposure-zones guide.