Cleveland Heights, OH
How exposed is Cleveland Heights to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cleveland Heights at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 19,389 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cleveland Heights at the 22nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cleveland Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Cleveland Heights's buildings (95.3% of 19,389) 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 19,389 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Cleveland Heights compares
Within Ohio, Cleveland Heights ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (20th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cleveland Heights ranks 25,192 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 733 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 622 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Cleveland Heights and the insurance market
Cleveland Heights's moderate rating (20th 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 Cleveland Heights
Even with 95.3% of Cleveland Heights outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cleveland Heights's 25,192-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cleveland Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.