Parma Heights, OH
Parma Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Parma Heights at the 20th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 9,188 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 Parma Heights at the 22nd percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Parma Heights rates 97.5% Minimal exposure against just 2.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 9,188 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,188 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Parma Heights compares
Within Ohio, Parma Heights ranks higher (51st percentile) than it does nationally (20th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parma Heights ranks 25,195 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,797 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 625 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parma Heights
Parma Heights's moderate wildfire rating (20th 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 Parma Heights
Parma Heights's 97.5% 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 Parma Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,188 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Parma Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Parma Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.