Steubenville, OH
Steubenville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Steubenville at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 8,009 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Steubenville at the 38th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Steubenville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 50.7% of Steubenville's 8,009 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 20.2% Direct and 29.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 8,009 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Steubenville ranks
Steubenville's 81st-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 37th 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, Steubenville ranks 19,832 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,109 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 239 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Steubenville and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Steubenville rates moderate 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 Steubenville
Because 50.7% of Steubenville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Steubenville's figures come from
Steubenville's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Steubenville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.