Port Jefferson, OH
How exposed is Port Jefferson to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Jefferson lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 233 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Jefferson at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Port Jefferson's building exposure, zone by zone
73.4% of Port Jefferson's 233 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 26.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Port Jefferson ranks
Port Jefferson's 29th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 8th 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, Port Jefferson ranks 29,007 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,710 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 899 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port Jefferson
At the 8th national percentile, Port Jefferson rates low 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
Because 73.4% of Port Jefferson's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Port Jefferson's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Jefferson, see the exposure-zones guide.