Cheshire, OH
How exposed is Cheshire to wildfire?
Cheshire sits at the 40th 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 153 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cheshire at the 42nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cheshire's building exposure, zone by zone
153 buildings are counted in Cheshire, and 56.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Cheshire compares
Within Ohio, Cheshire ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (40th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cheshire ranks 19,078 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,769 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 177 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Cheshire and the insurance market
Cheshire's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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.
Hardening a home in Cheshire
With 56.2% of Cheshire in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 153 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cheshire. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cheshire, see the exposure-zones guide.