Heath, OH
Heath wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Heath at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 4,580 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Heath's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Where Heath's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 63.8% of Heath's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 28.4% Direct and 7.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Heath ranks
Within Ohio, Heath ranks higher (64th percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Heath ranks 22,323 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,722 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 461 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Heath and the insurance market
Heath's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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.
Hardening a home in Heath
With 63.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Heath gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Heath's 22,323-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Heath, see the exposure-zones guide.