Vermilion, OH
Vermilion, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Vermilion lands at the 32nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 5,989 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vermilion at the 30th percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Vermilion's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 62.2% of Vermilion's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 27.1% Direct and 10.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,989 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Vermilion compares
Compare Vermilion's two percentiles: 69th within Ohio, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vermilion ranks 21,595 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,879 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 393 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Vermilion and the insurance market
At the 32nd national percentile, Vermilion rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 62.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Vermilion gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vermilion's 21,595-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vermilion, see the exposure-zones guide.