Fresno, OH
How exposed is Fresno to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fresno at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 110 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fresno at the 38th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Where Fresno's buildings actually sit
110 buildings are counted in Fresno, and 60.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 39.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Fresno ranks
Compare Fresno's two percentiles: 79th within Ohio, only 36th nationally — a gap of 43 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fresno ranks 20,143 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,632 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 261 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Fresno and the insurance market
Fresno's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Fresno
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fresno (60.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Fresno's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fresno, see the exposure-zones guide.