Manchester, OH
How exposed is Manchester to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Manchester at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,327 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Manchester at the 41st national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Manchester (80% of 1,327 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Manchester against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Manchester 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, Manchester ranks 19,487 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,949 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 212 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Manchester and the insurance market
Manchester's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Manchester's 80% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Manchester's 19,487-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Manchester, see the exposure-zones guide.