East Rochester, OH
East Rochester, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Rochester sits at the 34th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 186 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 Rochester at the 35th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where East Rochester's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in East Rochester (51.6% of 186 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 48.4% sit in the Direct zone.
East Rochester against the rest of the country
Compare East Rochester's two percentiles: 74th within Ohio, only 34th nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Rochester ranks 20,867 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,399 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 333 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Rochester
East Rochester's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
East Rochester's 51.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Rochester's 20,867-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Rochester, see the exposure-zones guide.