Newburgh Heights, OH
Newburgh Heights wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Newburgh Heights lands at the 26th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,093 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Newburgh Heights at the 25th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Newburgh Heights's buildings (99.7% of 1,093) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Newburgh Heights against the rest of the country
Compare Newburgh Heights's two percentiles: 59th within Ohio, only 26th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newburgh Heights ranks 23,332 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,322 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 517 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newburgh Heights
Newburgh Heights's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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
With 99.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Newburgh Heights gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Newburgh Heights's 26th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Newburgh Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.