Magnolia, OH
Magnolia wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Magnolia at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 576 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Magnolia's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
Magnolia's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Magnolia's buildings (72.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Magnolia against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Magnolia ranks higher (83rd percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Magnolia ranks 19,515 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,164 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 213 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Magnolia and the insurance market
At the 38th national percentile, Magnolia 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 Magnolia (72.7% 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 Magnolia's 19,515-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Magnolia, see the exposure-zones guide.