North Canton, OH
North Canton, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts North Canton at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 7,546 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks North Canton at the 27th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
North Canton's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of North Canton's buildings (84.9% of 7,546) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 7,546 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
North Canton against the rest of the country
North Canton's 56th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 24th 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, North Canton ranks 23,992 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,267 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 552 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
North Canton and the insurance market
At the 24th national percentile, North Canton 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 North Canton
With 84.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North Canton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Canton's 23,992-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Canton, see the exposure-zones guide.