Ravenna, OH
Ravenna wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ravenna at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,088 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ravenna at the 35th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 49.7% of Ravenna's 5,088 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 10% Direct and 40.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 5,088 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Ravenna compares
Compare Ravenna's two percentiles: 73rd within Ohio, only 33rd nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ravenna ranks 21,062 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,387 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 343 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Ravenna and the insurance market
At the 33rd national percentile, Ravenna rates moderate 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
Ravenna's 49.7% 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.
Where Ravenna's figures come from
Ravenna's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ravenna's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.