Nelsonville, OH
Nelsonville, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Nelsonville at the 40th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,242 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nelsonville at the 40th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Nelsonville's building exposure, zone by zone
75.4% of Nelsonville's 2,242 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 24.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Nelsonville compares
Compare Nelsonville's two percentiles: 88th within Ohio, only 40th nationally — a gap of 48 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nelsonville ranks 18,822 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,833 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 156 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 40th national percentile, Nelsonville rates elevated 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 Nelsonville
Because 75.4% of Nelsonville'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
Nelsonville's 40th-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 Nelsonville, see the exposure-zones guide.