WildfireRiskFinder

Lewisburg, OH

How exposed is Lewisburg to wildfire?

Low
8thpercentile nationally

Lewisburg sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,098 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 Lewisburg at the 9th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.

Lewisburg's building exposure, zone by zone

1,098Total buildings
11.9%Direct exposure
51.3%Indirect exposure
36.8%Minimal exposure

1,098 buildings are counted in Lewisburg, and 51.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 11.9% in Direct exposure or the 36.8% rated Minimal.

How Lewisburg compares

Lewisburg's 30th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 8th 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, Lewisburg ranks 28,916 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 890 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.

Lewisburg and the insurance market

Lewisburg's low wildfire rating (8th 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 Lewisburg

With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Lewisburg (51.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.

More on how this number was built

Every one of the two percentiles behind Lewisburg's 28,916-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lewisburg, see the exposure-zones guide.