Cuyahoga Falls, OH
How exposed is Cuyahoga Falls to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cuyahoga Falls lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 22,498 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cuyahoga Falls at the 33rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Cuyahoga Falls's buildings actually sit
Cuyahoga Falls rates 49.5% Minimal exposure against just 11.5% Direct and 39% Indirect — of 22,498 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 22,498 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Cuyahoga Falls compares
Compare Cuyahoga Falls's two percentiles: 72nd within Ohio, only 33rd nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cuyahoga Falls ranks 21,216 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 593 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 354 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cuyahoga Falls
Cuyahoga Falls's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 49.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cuyahoga Falls gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 22,498 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cuyahoga Falls. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cuyahoga Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.