East Springfield, OH
East Springfield wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Springfield lands at the 42nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 189 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Springfield at the 43rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in East Springfield: 84.7% of its 189 buildings, versus 15.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
East Springfield against the rest of the country
Compare East Springfield's two percentiles: 92nd within Ohio, only 42nd nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Springfield ranks 18,412 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 106 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
East Springfield and the insurance market
East Springfield's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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
East Springfield's 84.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Springfield's 18,412-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East Springfield, see the exposure-zones guide.