Tallmadge, OH
Tallmadge, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tallmadge's 8,318 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tallmadge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 28th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
8,318 buildings are counted in Tallmadge, and 47.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 22.4% rated Minimal. At 8,318 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Tallmadge ranks
Compare Tallmadge's two percentiles: 60th within Ohio, only 27th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tallmadge ranks 22,950 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,003 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 503 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
Tallmadge's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Tallmadge (47.8%), 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 Tallmadge's 22,950-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tallmadge, see the exposure-zones guide.