Springfield, OH
How exposed is Springfield to wildfire?
Springfield's 28,004 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Springfield at the 11th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 7.3% of Springfield's 28,004 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 28,004 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Springfield compares
Springfield's 32nd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 10th 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, Springfield ranks 28,316 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 435 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 859 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
Springfield's low wildfire rating (10th 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 Springfield
Springfield's 92.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Springfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Springfield's 28,316-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Springfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.