Canfield, OH
Canfield wildfire risk explained
Canfield sits at the 35th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,407 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Canfield at the 35th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
3,407 buildings are counted in Canfield, and 49.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 19.9% in Direct exposure or the 30.3% rated Minimal.
How Canfield compares
Compare Canfield's two percentiles: 76th within Ohio, only 35th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canfield ranks 20,582 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 308 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Canfield and the insurance market
Canfield's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 49.8% of Canfield'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 Canfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Canfield's 20,582-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Canfield's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.