Newtown, OH
Newtown wildfire risk explained
Newtown sits at the 17th 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 1,349 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Newtown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
Newtown's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 55.5% of Newtown's 1,349 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 44.3% Direct and 0.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Newtown against the rest of the country
Compare Newtown's two percentiles: 46th within Ohio, only 17th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newtown ranks 26,104 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,836 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 680 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Newtown and the insurance market
Newtown's low rating (17th 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 Newtown
Because 55.5% of Newtown'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.
Where Newtown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newtown's 26,104-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Newtown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.