Belmont, OH
Belmont wildfire risk explained
Belmont's 351 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Belmont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 46th percentile nationally.
Belmont's building exposure, zone by zone
351 buildings are counted in Belmont, and 71.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 28.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Belmont against the rest of the country
Compare Belmont's two percentiles: 95th within Ohio, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belmont ranks 17,850 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,285 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 67 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Belmont and the insurance market
Belmont's elevated rating (43rd 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 Belmont
Because 71.8% of Belmont'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.
Where Belmont's figures come from
Belmont's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Belmont's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.