Roachester, OH
How exposed is Roachester to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Roachester at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 374 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Roachester at the 25th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Roachester's building exposure, zone by zone
374 buildings are counted in Roachester, and 82.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Roachester compares
Within Ohio, Roachester ranks higher (56th percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roachester ranks 24,154 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,787 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 561 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roachester
Roachester's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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 Roachester
Because Direct exposure dominates in Roachester (82.4%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 374 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Roachester. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Roachester, see the exposure-zones guide.