Oakwood (Cuyahoga), OH
Oakwood (Cuyahoga) wildfire risk explained
Oakwood (Cuyahoga)'s 1,973 buildings earn a 26th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Oakwood (Cuyahoga) at the 27th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Oakwood (Cuyahoga)'s buildings actually sit
Only 43% of Oakwood (Cuyahoga)'s 1,973 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 57% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Oakwood (Cuyahoga) against the rest of the country
Oakwood (Cuyahoga)'s 59th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 26th 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, Oakwood (Cuyahoga) ranks 23,429 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,552 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 523 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
Oakwood (Cuyahoga)'s moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
Hardening a home in Oakwood (Cuyahoga)
With 57% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Oakwood (Cuyahoga) 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oakwood (Cuyahoga)'s 23,429-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Oakwood (Cuyahoga), see the exposure-zones guide.