Ross, OH
Ross, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ross at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,798 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ross at the 24th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ross's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Ross (56.6% of 1,798 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 43.2% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Ross ranks
Ross's 53rd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 22nd 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, Ross ranks 24,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,067 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 598 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ross
Ross's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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
Because 56.6% of Ross'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
Ross's 22nd-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 Ross, see the exposure-zones guide.