Chesterland, OH
Chesterland, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Chesterland at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,337 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chesterland at the 37th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Where Chesterland's buildings actually sit
Of Chesterland's 4,337 counted buildings, 89.7% 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.
Chesterland against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Chesterland ranks higher (76th percentile) than it does nationally (35th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chesterland ranks 20,554 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,948 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 306 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
Chesterland's moderate rating (35th 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 Chesterland
Chesterland's 89.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Chesterland's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Chesterland, see the exposure-zones guide.