Lowellville, OH
Lowellville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lowellville at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 751 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lowellville at the 36th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Lowellville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 88.4% of Lowellville's 751 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 11.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Lowellville compares
Compare Lowellville's two percentiles: 79th within Ohio, only 36th nationally — a gap of 43 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lowellville ranks 20,181 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,116 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 263 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 36th national percentile, Lowellville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Lowellville (88.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Lowellville's figures come from
Lowellville's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lowellville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.