Lyons, OH
Lyons wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lyons lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 400 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lyons at the 0th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lyons's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 17.8% of Lyons's 400 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Lyons compares
Lyons scores 1st nationally and 2nd within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lyons ranks 31,374 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,218 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,230 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Lyons and the insurance market
Lyons's low wildfire rating (1st 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 Lyons
Even with 82.3% of Lyons outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lyons's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lyons's 31,374-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lyons's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.