Barnesville, OH
How exposed is Barnesville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Barnesville at the 41st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,218 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Barnesville at the 43rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Barnesville's buildings actually sit
2,218 buildings are counted in Barnesville, and 68% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Barnesville against the rest of the country
Compare Barnesville's two percentiles: 90th within Ohio, only 41st nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barnesville ranks 18,596 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,886 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 124 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Barnesville and the insurance market
Barnesville's elevated rating (41st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Barnesville
Because 68% of Barnesville'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 Barnesville's 18,596-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Barnesville, see the exposure-zones guide.