Sarahsville, OH
Sarahsville, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sarahsville lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 105 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sarahsville at the 42nd percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Sarahsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Sarahsville (64.8% of 105 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 35.2% sit in the Direct zone.
How Sarahsville compares
Sarahsville's 89th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 41st 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, Sarahsville ranks 18,728 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,813 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 144 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Sarahsville's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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 Sarahsville
Because 64.8% of Sarahsville'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sarahsville's 18,728-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sarahsville, see the exposure-zones guide.