Maple Ridge, OH
How exposed is Maple Ridge to wildfire?
USFS scores Maple Ridge at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 680 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Maple Ridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Maple Ridge: 76.8% of its 680 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 23.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Maple Ridge compares
Within Ohio, Maple Ridge ranks higher (64th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maple Ridge ranks 22,198 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,862 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 453 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Maple Ridge and the insurance market
Maple Ridge's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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 Maple Ridge
Because Direct exposure dominates in Maple Ridge (76.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Maple Ridge's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Maple Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.