Pomeroy, OH
How exposed is Pomeroy to wildfire?
USFS scores Pomeroy at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,010 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pomeroy at the 42nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pomeroy's buildings actually sit
1,010 buildings are counted in Pomeroy, and 67.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.2% rated Minimal.
Where Pomeroy ranks
Compare Pomeroy's two percentiles: 90th within Ohio, only 41st nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pomeroy ranks 18,572 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,860 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 121 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pomeroy's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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 Pomeroy
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pomeroy (67.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pomeroy's 18,572-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pomeroy, see the exposure-zones guide.