Hayesville, OH
How exposed is Hayesville to wildfire?
Hayesville's 342 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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hayesville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Hayesville: 61.7% of its 342 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 38.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Hayesville ranks
Within Ohio, Hayesville 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, Hayesville ranks 26,103 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,528 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 679 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hayesville
At the 17th national percentile, Hayesville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hayesville's 61.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Hayesville's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hayesville, see the exposure-zones guide.