North Baltimore, OH
How exposed is North Baltimore to wildfire?
USFS scores North Baltimore at the 2nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,919 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks North Baltimore at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
North Baltimore's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93.6% of North Baltimore's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
North Baltimore against the rest of the country
North Baltimore's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (11th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Baltimore ranks 30,996 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,711 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,125 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
North Baltimore and the insurance market
North Baltimore's low wildfire rating (2nd 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.
Hardening a home in North Baltimore
Even with 93.6% of North Baltimore outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where North Baltimore's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Baltimore's 30,996-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what North Baltimore's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.