Orrville, OH
How exposed is Orrville to wildfire?
USFS scores Orrville at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,826 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orrville at the 12th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 10.4% of Orrville's 3,826 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Orrville compares
Compare Orrville's two percentiles: 36th within Ohio, only 12th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orrville ranks 27,836 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,404 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 811 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orrville
Orrville's low rating (12th 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 Orrville
With 89.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Orrville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Orrville's figures come from
Orrville's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Orrville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.