Mingo Junction, OH
How exposed is Mingo Junction to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mingo Junction lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,946 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mingo Junction at the 35th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Mingo Junction's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Mingo Junction's buildings (72.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Mingo Junction compares
Within Ohio, Mingo Junction ranks higher (75th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mingo Junction ranks 20,712 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,627 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 319 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Mingo Junction and the insurance market
Mingo Junction's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mingo Junction
Because 72.6% of Mingo Junction's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,946 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mingo Junction. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mingo Junction, see the exposure-zones guide.