Massillon, OH
Massillon wildfire risk explained
Massillon sits at the 23rd 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 16,192 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Massillon at the 24th national percentile — 0 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
86.4% of Massillon's 16,192 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 16,192 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Massillon compares
Within Ohio, Massillon ranks higher (56th percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Massillon ranks 24,153 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 897 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 560 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Massillon
At the 23rd national percentile, Massillon 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 Massillon
With 86.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Massillon gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Massillon's 23rd-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 Massillon, see the exposure-zones guide.