Solon, OH
How exposed is Solon to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Solon lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 9,424 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Solon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Solon rates 45.7% Minimal exposure against just 36.9% Direct and 17.5% Indirect — of 9,424 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,424 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Solon compares
Solon's 61st-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 28th 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, Solon ranks 22,793 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,733 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 490 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Solon and the insurance market
At the 28th national percentile, Solon rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 45.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Solon gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Solon's 22,793-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Solon, see the exposure-zones guide.