New Pittsburg, OH
New Pittsburg wildfire risk explained
New Pittsburg sits at the 14th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 237 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Pittsburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
56.5% of New Pittsburg's 237 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 134 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 2.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 41.4% are Minimal.
How New Pittsburg compares
Within Ohio, New Pittsburg ranks higher (42nd percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — 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 Pittsburg ranks 26,956 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,567 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 735 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
New Pittsburg and the insurance market
New Pittsburg's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in New Pittsburg
New Pittsburg's 56.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Pittsburg's 26,956-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Pittsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.