Malta, OH
Malta wildfire risk explained
Malta's 424 buildings earn a 41st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Malta at the 42nd percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Malta's buildings (86.3%) 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.
How Malta compares
Within Ohio, Malta ranks higher (89th percentile) than it does nationally (41st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Malta ranks 18,666 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,765 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 133 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Malta
Malta's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 86.3% of Malta'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
Malta's 41st-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 Malta, see the exposure-zones guide.