Mayfield, OH
How exposed is Mayfield to wildfire?
Mayfield sits at the 28th 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 1,505 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Where Mayfield's buildings actually sit
Most of Mayfield's buildings (52.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Mayfield against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Mayfield ranks higher (61st percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — 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 ranks 22,827 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,152 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 492 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mayfield
At the 28th national percentile, Mayfield 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mayfield (52.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Mayfield's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mayfield, see the exposure-zones guide.