Perrysville, OH
How exposed is Perrysville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Perrysville lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 459 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Perrysville at the 31st percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
459 buildings are counted in Perrysville, and 85.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 14.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Perrysville compares
Within Ohio, Perrysville ranks higher (64th percentile) than it does nationally (30th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perrysville ranks 22,168 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 451 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Perrysville and the insurance market
Perrysville's moderate rating (30th 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 Perrysville
Perrysville's 85.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 459 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Perrysville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Perrysville, see the exposure-zones guide.