Northwood, OH
Northwood, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Northwood lands at the 4th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 3,262 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Northwood at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Northwood's buildings actually sit
95.6% of Northwood's 3,262 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Northwood against the rest of the country
Northwood's 20th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 4th 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, Northwood ranks 30,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,086 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,013 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
Northwood's low rating (4th 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 Northwood
Even with 95.6% of Northwood outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Northwood's 30,397-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Northwood, see the exposure-zones guide.