South Amherst, OH
How exposed is South Amherst to wildfire?
USFS scores South Amherst at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,077 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks South Amherst at the 16th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where South Amherst's buildings actually sit
Of South Amherst's 1,077 counted buildings, 75.6% carry Direct exposure and only 24.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where South Amherst ranks
Within Ohio, South Amherst ranks higher (45th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Amherst ranks 26,450 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,418 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 703 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
South Amherst and the insurance market
South Amherst's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in South Amherst (75.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind South Amherst's 26,450-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond South Amherst, see the exposure-zones guide.