Lakemore, OH
Lakemore wildfire risk explained
Lakemore sits at the 26th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,633 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lakemore at the 28th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Lakemore's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Lakemore's buildings (85.5% of 1,633) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Lakemore against the rest of the country
Compare Lakemore's two percentiles: 59th within Ohio, only 26th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lakemore ranks 23,394 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,642 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 521 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Lakemore and the insurance market
Lakemore's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Lakemore's 85.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lakemore's 23,394-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lakemore, see the exposure-zones guide.