Salesville, OH
Salesville wildfire risk explained
Salesville's 125 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Salesville at the 45th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Salesville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Salesville (52% of 125 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 48% sit in the Direct zone.
How Salesville compares
Salesville's 95th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 44th 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, Salesville ranks 17,811 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,955 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 66 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Salesville
Salesville's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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 Salesville
Because 52% of Salesville'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
Salesville's 44th-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 Salesville, see the exposure-zones guide.