Waynesfield, OH
Waynesfield, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Waynesfield sits at the 2nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 510 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Waynesfield at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Waynesfield rates 78.4% Minimal exposure against just 21.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 510 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Waynesfield compares
Waynesfield scores 2nd nationally and 14th within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Waynesfield ranks 30,839 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,173 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,086 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
Waynesfield's low wildfire rating (2nd 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
Even with 78.4% of Waynesfield 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 510 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Waynesfield. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Waynesfield, see the exposure-zones guide.