New Philadelphia, OH
New Philadelphia wildfire risk explained
New Philadelphia's 8,886 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Philadelphia's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
New Philadelphia's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in New Philadelphia (84.2% of 8,886 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9.4% sit in the Direct zone. At 8,886 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
New Philadelphia against the rest of the country
Compare New Philadelphia's two percentiles: 79th within Ohio, only 36th nationally — a gap of 43 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Philadelphia ranks 20,183 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,872 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 265 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 36th national percentile, New Philadelphia rates moderate 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 New Philadelphia
New Philadelphia's 84.2% 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 New Philadelphia's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Philadelphia's 20,183-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what New Philadelphia's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.