Midvale, OH
How exposed is Midvale to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Midvale at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 469 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Midvale at the 38th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Midvale's buildings actually sit
68.2% of Midvale's 469 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 31.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Midvale compares
Midvale's 82nd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 38th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Midvale ranks 19,672 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,903 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 224 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Midvale and the insurance market
Midvale's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Midvale (68.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Midvale's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Midvale, see the exposure-zones guide.