Eastlake, OH
Eastlake, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Eastlake 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 9,387 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Eastlake's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
Eastlake's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 3.7% of Eastlake's 9,387 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 96.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,387 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Eastlake ranks
Within Ohio, Eastlake ranks higher (54th percentile) than it does nationally (22nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eastlake ranks 24,497 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,742 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 583 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Eastlake'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 Eastlake
Even with 96.3% of Eastlake 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 9,387 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Eastlake. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Eastlake, see the exposure-zones guide.