Brownsville, OH
How exposed is Brownsville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brownsville at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 189 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brownsville at the 40th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brownsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Brownsville's 189 counted buildings, 66.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Brownsville compares
Brownsville's 84th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 39th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownsville ranks 19,386 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,291 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 203 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brownsville's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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 Brownsville (66.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Brownsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brownsville's 19,386-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brownsville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.