North Olmsted, OH
North Olmsted wildfire risk explained
USFS scores North Olmsted at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 13,590 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 North Olmsted at the 28th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
North Olmsted's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 76.9% of North Olmsted's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 13,590 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
North Olmsted against the rest of the country
Compare North Olmsted's two percentiles: 60th within Ohio, only 26th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Olmsted ranks 23,208 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,114 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 512 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
North Olmsted and the insurance market
North Olmsted's moderate rating (26th 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 Olmsted's 76.9% 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.
Where North Olmsted's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Olmsted's 23,208-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what North Olmsted's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.