Jamestown, OH
Jamestown wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jamestown at the 3rd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,055 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 Jamestown at the 4th percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 14.2% of Jamestown's 1,055 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 85.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Jamestown compares
Compare Jamestown's two percentiles: 19th within Ohio, only 3rd nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jamestown ranks 30,462 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,570 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,022 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jamestown
Jamestown's low wildfire rating (3rd 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
Jamestown's 85.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Jamestown's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,055 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jamestown. The exposure-zones guide covers what Jamestown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.