Cuyahoga Heights, OH
How exposed is Cuyahoga Heights to wildfire?
USFS scores Cuyahoga Heights at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,196 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 Cuyahoga Heights at the 22nd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Cuyahoga Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
96.9% of Cuyahoga Heights's 1,196 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Cuyahoga Heights ranks
Cuyahoga Heights's 55th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 23rd 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, Cuyahoga Heights ranks 24,206 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,671 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 563 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cuyahoga Heights
Cuyahoga Heights's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 96.9% of Cuyahoga 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,196 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cuyahoga Heights. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cuyahoga Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.