Norwood, OH
Norwood wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Norwood lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 8,239 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Norwood at the 13th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Norwood's buildings actually sit
Only 1.6% of Norwood's 8,239 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,239 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Norwood compares
Norwood's 33rd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 11th 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, Norwood ranks 28,185 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,030 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 849 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Norwood
Norwood's low wildfire rating (11th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Norwood's 98.4% 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 Norwood's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Norwood's 28,185-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Norwood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.