Mansfield, OH
Mansfield wildfire risk explained
Mansfield sits at the 30th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 22,738 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mansfield at the 30th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Mansfield's buildings (80.4% of 22,738) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 22,738 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Mansfield against the rest of the country
Compare Mansfield's two percentiles: 65th within Ohio, only 30th nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mansfield ranks 22,166 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 584 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 449 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
Mansfield's moderate rating (30th 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
With 80.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mansfield gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mansfield's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 22,738 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mansfield. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mansfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.