Canton, OH
Canton, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Canton at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 34,877 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Canton at the 30th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Canton's buildings (96.1% of 34,877) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 34,877 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Canton against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Canton ranks higher (63rd percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canton ranks 22,480 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 311 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 469 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Canton and the insurance market
At the 29th national percentile, Canton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 96.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Canton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Canton's figures come from
Canton's 29th-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 Canton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.