Orangeville, OH
How exposed is Orangeville to wildfire?
Orangeville's 165 buildings earn a 37th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orangeville at the 38th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
165 buildings are counted in Orangeville, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Orangeville ranks
Compare Orangeville's two percentiles: 81st within Ohio, only 37th nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orangeville ranks 19,803 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,232 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 236 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Orangeville and the insurance market
Orangeville's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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
Orangeville's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orangeville's 19,803-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Orangeville, see the exposure-zones guide.