Tarlton, OH
Tarlton, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tarlton at the 41st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 249 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 Tarlton at the 44th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
249 buildings are counted in Tarlton, and 62.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 37.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Tarlton compares
Tarlton's 89th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 41st 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, Tarlton ranks 18,729 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,179 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 145 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tarlton
Tarlton'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 Tarlton
Tarlton's 62.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tarlton's 18,729-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tarlton, see the exposure-zones guide.