Elizabethtown, OH
Elizabethtown, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Elizabethtown's 263 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Elizabethtown at the 19th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Elizabethtown's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Elizabethtown's buildings (66.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Elizabethtown against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Elizabethtown ranks higher (46th percentile) than it does nationally (17th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elizabethtown ranks 26,228 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,745 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 688 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Elizabethtown and the insurance market
At the 17th national percentile, Elizabethtown rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Elizabethtown
Elizabethtown's 66.5% 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.
Where Elizabethtown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Elizabethtown's 26,228-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Elizabethtown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.