Warrensville Heights, OH
How exposed is Warrensville Heights to wildfire?
Warrensville Heights's 4,875 buildings earn a 22nd-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, Warrensville Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
Warrensville Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 3% of Warrensville Heights's 4,875 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Warrensville Heights compares
Warrensville Heights's 53rd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 22nd 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, Warrensville Heights ranks 24,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,510 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 590 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Warrensville Heights and the insurance market
Warrensville Heights's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 97% of Warrensville Heights outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,875 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Warrensville Heights. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Warrensville Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.