Marble Cliff, OH
Marble Cliff, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Marble Cliff lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 325 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Marble Cliff at the 9th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 93.5% of Marble Cliff's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Marble Cliff ranks
Compare Marble Cliff's two percentiles: 27th within Ohio, only 6th nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marble Cliff ranks 29,546 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,966 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 927 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Marble Cliff and the insurance market
Marble Cliff's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Marble Cliff's 93.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Marble Cliff's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marble Cliff, see the exposure-zones guide.