Mayfield Heights, OH
How exposed is Mayfield Heights to wildfire?
USFS scores Mayfield Heights at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,281 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mayfield Heights at the 29th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Mayfield Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Mayfield Heights's buildings (83.3% of 7,281) 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 7,281 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Mayfield Heights ranks
Within Ohio, Mayfield Heights ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mayfield Heights ranks 23,111 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,349 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 508 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
At the 27th national percentile, Mayfield Heights rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Mayfield Heights's 83.3% 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 Mayfield Heights's 23,111-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mayfield Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.