Medina, OH
How exposed is Medina to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Medina at the 31st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 9,365 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Medina's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Medina's buildings (88.5% of 9,365) 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 9,365 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Medina against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Medina ranks higher (68th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Medina ranks 21,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,750 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 409 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Medina and the insurance market
Medina's moderate wildfire rating (31st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Medina
Medina's 88.5% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,365 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Medina. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Medina, see the exposure-zones guide.