Barberton, OH
Barberton, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Barberton at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 13,417 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Barberton at the 30th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Barberton's building exposure, zone by zone
Barberton rates 78.2% Minimal exposure against just 5.4% Direct and 16.4% Indirect — of 13,417 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 13,417 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Barberton compares
Compare Barberton's two percentiles: 63rd within Ohio, only 29th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barberton ranks 22,387 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,130 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 464 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Barberton
At the 29th national percentile, Barberton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 78.2% of Barberton outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Barberton's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,417 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Barberton. The exposure-zones guide covers what Barberton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.