Nashville, OH
How exposed is Nashville to wildfire?
Nashville sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 122 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nashville at the 32nd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Nashville's building exposure, zone by zone
122 buildings are counted in Nashville, and 82.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Nashville compares
Compare Nashville's two percentiles: 67th within Ohio, only 31st nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nashville ranks 21,782 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,081 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 416 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nashville
At the 31st national percentile, Nashville rates moderate 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
Nashville's 82.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Nashville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 122 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Nashville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nashville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.