Newport (Shelby), OH
Newport (Shelby), OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Newport (Shelby) at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 153 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Newport (Shelby) at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 45.1% of Newport (Shelby)'s 153 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Newport (Shelby) compares
Newport (Shelby)'s 26th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 6th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newport (Shelby) ranks 29,610 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,770 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 933 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Newport (Shelby) and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Newport (Shelby) rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Newport (Shelby)'s 54.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Newport (Shelby)'s 6th-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 Newport (Shelby), see the exposure-zones guide.