Sharon Center, OH
How exposed is Sharon Center to wildfire?
Sharon Center's 776 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sharon Center at the 33rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Sharon Center's 776 counted buildings, 78.4% carry Direct exposure and only 3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Sharon Center against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Sharon Center ranks higher (69th percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sharon Center ranks 21,500 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,856 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 388 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Sharon Center and the insurance market
Sharon Center's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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 Sharon Center
Because Direct exposure dominates in Sharon Center (78.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Sharon Center's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sharon Center's 21,500-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sharon Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.