Rochester, OH
Rochester, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rochester sits at the 26th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 171 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rochester at the 24th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Rochester's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Rochester: 67.8% of its 171 buildings, versus 32.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Rochester compares
Compare Rochester's two percentiles: 59th within Ohio, only 26th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rochester ranks 23,456 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,996 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 526 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rochester
Rochester's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 67.8% of Rochester in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rochester's 23,456-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rochester, see the exposure-zones guide.