Elmore, OH
How exposed is Elmore to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Elmore lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 783 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Elmore's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6.8% of Elmore's 783 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Elmore ranks
There's little gap between Elmore's 2nd national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elmore ranks 30,806 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,790 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,076 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Elmore
At the 2nd national percentile, Elmore rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 93.2% of Elmore 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
Elmore's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Elmore, see the exposure-zones guide.