Marlboro, OH
How exposed is Marlboro to wildfire?
USFS scores Marlboro at the 22nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 210 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marlboro at the 22nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Marlboro's buildings actually sit
Most of Marlboro's buildings (54.8% of 210) 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.
Marlboro against the rest of the country
Compare Marlboro's two percentiles: 54th within Ohio, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 32 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marlboro ranks 24,465 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,492 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 579 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Marlboro and the insurance market
At the 22nd national percentile, Marlboro rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Marlboro
Marlboro's 54.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marlboro's 24,465-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Marlboro, see the exposure-zones guide.