Bellevue, OH
Bellevue wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bellevue at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 4,538 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bellevue at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Bellevue's building exposure, zone by zone
Bellevue rates 95.1% Minimal exposure against just 4.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,538 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Bellevue against the rest of the country
Bellevue scores 1st nationally and 6th within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bellevue ranks 31,177 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,761 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,178 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bellevue
Bellevue's low rating (1st 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 Bellevue
Even with 95.1% of Bellevue 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 Bellevue's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bellevue's 31,177-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bellevue's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.