Silverton, OH
How exposed is Silverton to wildfire?
Silverton's 2,190 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Silverton at the 13th national percentile — 2 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
USFS classifies 82.9% of Silverton's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 17.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Silverton against the rest of the country
Compare Silverton's two percentiles: 35th within Ohio, only 12th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Silverton ranks 27,903 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,960 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 823 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Silverton and the insurance market
At the 12th national percentile, Silverton rates low 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 Silverton
Even with 82.9% of Silverton outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Silverton's 27,903-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Silverton, see the exposure-zones guide.