Melmore, OH
How exposed is Melmore to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Melmore at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 151 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Melmore at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 84.8% of Melmore's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Melmore compares
Melmore's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Melmore ranks 30,965 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,854 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,116 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Melmore
At the 2nd national percentile, Melmore rates low 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
Melmore's 84.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Melmore's 30,965-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Melmore, see the exposure-zones guide.