Norton, OH
Norton wildfire risk explained
Norton sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 7,602 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Norton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Norton's 7,602 counted buildings, 53.5% carry Direct exposure and only 37% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 7,602 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Norton compares
Compare Norton's two percentiles: 69th within Ohio, only 31st nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norton ranks 21,628 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,249 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 395 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
Norton's moderate rating (31st 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 Norton
Because Direct exposure dominates in Norton (53.5%), 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 Norton's 21,628-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Norton, see the exposure-zones guide.