Waite Hill, OH
Waite Hill, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Waite Hill at the 32nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 386 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 Waite Hill at the 34th percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Waite Hill: 99.5% of its 386 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0.5% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Waite Hill ranks
Waite Hill's 71st-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 32nd 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, Waite Hill ranks 21,314 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,505 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 366 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Waite Hill and the insurance market
At the 32nd national percentile, Waite Hill rates moderate 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 Waite Hill
Waite Hill's 99.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Waite Hill's 21,314-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Waite Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.