Clarksburg, OH
Clarksburg wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Clarksburg lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 278 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clarksburg at the 6th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 82.4% of Clarksburg's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 17.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Clarksburg ranks
Clarksburg's 25th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 5th 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, Clarksburg ranks 29,859 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,277 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 948 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clarksburg
At the 5th national percentile, Clarksburg rates low 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
Clarksburg's 82.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clarksburg's 29,859-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clarksburg, see the exposure-zones guide.