North Royalton, OH
How exposed is North Royalton to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, North Royalton lands at the 29th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 11,463 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks North Royalton at the 30th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where North Royalton's buildings actually sit
49.4% of North Royalton's 11,463 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 5,666 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 7.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 43.5% are Minimal. At 11,463 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 Royalton ranks
North Royalton's 63rd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 29th 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 Royalton ranks 22,413 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,375 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 467 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
North Royalton and the insurance market
North Royalton's moderate rating (29th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in North Royalton (49.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Royalton's 22,413-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 Royalton, see the exposure-zones guide.