Syracuse, OH
Syracuse wildfire risk explained
Syracuse's 599 buildings earn a 41st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Syracuse at the 42nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Syracuse's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 63.1% of Syracuse's 599 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34.7% Direct and 2.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Syracuse against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Syracuse ranks higher (89th percentile) than it does nationally (41st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Syracuse ranks 18,763 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,854 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 149 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
Syracuse's elevated rating (41st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Syracuse
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Syracuse (63.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Syracuse's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Syracuse, see the exposure-zones guide.