North Ridgeville, OH
North Ridgeville wildfire risk explained
North Ridgeville's 16,169 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (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 Ridgeville at the 28th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Where North Ridgeville's buildings actually sit
North Ridgeville rates 69.2% Minimal exposure against just 30.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 16,169 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 16,169 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where North Ridgeville ranks
Within Ohio, North Ridgeville ranks higher (61st percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — 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 Ridgeville ranks 22,765 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 901 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 489 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
North Ridgeville's moderate rating (28th 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 North Ridgeville
With 69.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North Ridgeville 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
North Ridgeville's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Ridgeville, see the exposure-zones guide.