Mentor, OH
Mentor wildfire risk explained
Mentor's 21,005 buildings earn a 30th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mentor'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
Only 12.7% of Mentor's 21,005 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 21,005 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Mentor against the rest of the country
Compare Mentor's two percentiles: 66th within Ohio, only 30th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mentor ranks 22,069 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 666 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 439 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Mentor and the insurance market
Mentor's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Mentor's 86.4% 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
Mentor's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mentor, see the exposure-zones guide.