East Cleveland, OH
East Cleveland wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Cleveland lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 6,804 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 East Cleveland at the 24th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
East Cleveland's building exposure, zone by zone
98.2% of East Cleveland's 6,804 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 6,804 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where East Cleveland ranks
Compare East Cleveland's two percentiles: 53rd within Ohio, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Cleveland ranks 24,589 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,541 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 591 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
East Cleveland and the insurance market
East Cleveland's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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.
Hardening a home in East Cleveland
With 98.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Cleveland 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 6,804 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Cleveland. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Cleveland, see the exposure-zones guide.