Port Clinton, OH
How exposed is Port Clinton to wildfire?
Port Clinton's 3,425 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Clinton at the 8th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Port Clinton's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Port Clinton's buildings (66.5% of 3,425) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Port Clinton ranks
Compare Port Clinton's two percentiles: 30th within Ohio, only 9th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Clinton ranks 28,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,881 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 885 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port Clinton
Port Clinton's low rating (9th 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 Port Clinton
With 66.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Port Clinton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Port Clinton's 9th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Port Clinton, see the exposure-zones guide.