North Bend, OH
North Bend wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, North Bend lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 451 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 North Bend at the 19th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Where North Bend's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in North Bend: 50.1% of its 451 buildings, versus 49.2% Indirect and 0.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
North Bend against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, North Bend ranks higher (47th percentile) than it does nationally (17th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Bend ranks 26,074 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,262 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 677 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Bend
North Bend'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.
What would actually reduce this score
North Bend's 50.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Bend's 26,074-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond North Bend, see the exposure-zones guide.