Medway, OH
Medway wildfire risk explained
Medway's 383 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Medway at the 9th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Medway's buildings actually sit
Most of Medway's buildings (64.8% of 383) 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.
Medway against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Medway ranks higher (29th percentile) than it does nationally (8th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Medway ranks 28,979 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,569 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 895 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
Medway's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Medway's 64.8% 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.
Where Medway's figures come from
Medway's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Medway's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.