New Marshfield, OH
How exposed is New Marshfield to wildfire?
USFS scores New Marshfield at the 43rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 260 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Marshfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 45th percentile nationally.
New Marshfield's building exposure, zone by zone
260 buildings are counted in New Marshfield, and 53.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 46.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
New Marshfield against the rest of the country
New Marshfield's 95th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 43rd 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, New Marshfield ranks 17,851 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,832 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 68 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
New Marshfield and the insurance market
New Marshfield's elevated wildfire rating (43rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
New Marshfield's 53.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Marshfield's 17,851-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond New Marshfield, see the exposure-zones guide.