Jefferson, OH
How exposed is Jefferson to wildfire?
Jefferson's 1,672 buildings earn a 35th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jefferson at the 36th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Jefferson's buildings actually sit
1,672 buildings are counted in Jefferson, and 54.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32.7% in Direct exposure or the 12.5% rated Minimal.
Where Jefferson ranks
Within Ohio, Jefferson ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (35th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jefferson ranks 20,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,514 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 293 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Jefferson and the insurance market
At the 35th national percentile, Jefferson rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Jefferson
Because 54.8% of Jefferson's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jefferson's 20,397-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jefferson, see the exposure-zones guide.