Gomer, OH
Gomer wildfire risk explained
Gomer's 308 buildings earn a 1st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gomer's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 20.1% of Gomer's 308 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 79.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Gomer compares
There's little gap between Gomer's 1st national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gomer ranks 31,373 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,426 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,229 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Gomer and the insurance market
Gomer's low wildfire rating (1st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 79.9% of Gomer 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gomer's 31,373-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Gomer, see the exposure-zones guide.