Newcomerstown, OH
How exposed is Newcomerstown to wildfire?
USFS scores Newcomerstown at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,464 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Newcomerstown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 38th percentile nationally.
Newcomerstown's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Newcomerstown's buildings (83%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Newcomerstown ranks
Compare Newcomerstown's two percentiles: 82nd within Ohio, only 37th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newcomerstown ranks 19,771 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,367 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 232 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Newcomerstown and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Newcomerstown 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 Newcomerstown
Because 83% of Newcomerstown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newcomerstown's 19,771-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Newcomerstown, see the exposure-zones guide.