Laurelville, OH
Laurelville, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Laurelville's 349 buildings earn a 34th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Laurelville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
Laurelville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 91.1% of Laurelville's 349 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 8.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Laurelville compares
Laurelville's 74th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 34th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Laurelville ranks 20,805 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,347 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 325 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Laurelville
Laurelville's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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 Laurelville
Because 91.1% of Laurelville'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
Laurelville's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Laurelville, see the exposure-zones guide.