Painesville, OH
How exposed is Painesville to wildfire?
Painesville's 7,066 buildings earn a 31st-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 Painesville at the 33rd percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Painesville's buildings actually sit
95.5% of Painesville's 7,066 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,066 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Painesville ranks
Painesville's 69th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 31st 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, Painesville ranks 21,629 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,426 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 396 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Painesville and the insurance market
At the 31st national percentile, Painesville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 95.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Painesville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Painesville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Painesville's 21,629-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Painesville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.