New Middletown, OH
How exposed is New Middletown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Middletown at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 915 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Middletown at the 32nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
New Middletown's building exposure, zone by zone
80.1% of New Middletown's 915 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 19.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
New Middletown against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, New Middletown ranks higher (71st percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Middletown ranks 21,342 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,598 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 369 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Middletown
New Middletown's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
New Middletown's 80.1% 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
New Middletown's 32nd-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 New Middletown, see the exposure-zones guide.