Sylvania, OH
Sylvania, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sylvania at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 7,315 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sylvania at the 11th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Where Sylvania's buildings actually sit
Most of Sylvania's buildings (86.4% of 7,315) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 7,315 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Sylvania against the rest of the country
Sylvania'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, Sylvania ranks 28,410 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,339 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 865 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Sylvania and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Sylvania 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 Sylvania
Sylvania's 86.4% 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 Sylvania's figures come from
Sylvania's 10th-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 Sylvania's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.