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Salineville, OH

Salineville wildfire risk explained

Elevated
42ndpercentile nationally

Salineville's 870 buildings earn a 42nd-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 Salineville at the 42nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.

Salineville's building exposure, zone by zone

870Total buildings
54.8%Direct exposure
45.2%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

Of Salineville's 870 counted buildings, 54.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.

Salineville against the rest of the country

Within Ohio, Salineville ranks higher (92nd percentile) than it does nationally (42nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salineville ranks 18,415 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,990 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 109 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Salineville

At the 42nd national percentile, Salineville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

Hardening a home in Salineville

Salineville's 54.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.

More on how this number was built

Salineville's 42nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Salineville, see the exposure-zones guide.