Midland, OH
Midland, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Midland sits at the 4th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 200 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Midland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Midland's buildings (79% of 200) 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.
How Midland compares
Compare Midland's two percentiles: 22nd within Ohio, only 4th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midland ranks 30,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,856 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 988 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Midland and the insurance market
At the 4th national percentile, Midland rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Midland
Midland's 79% 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 Midland's 30,209-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Midland, see the exposure-zones guide.