Wellington, OH
Wellington, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wellington sits at the 27th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,443 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 Wellington at the 26th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Where Wellington's buildings actually sit
2,443 buildings are counted in Wellington, and 80.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 19.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Wellington against the rest of the country
Compare Wellington's two percentiles: 61st within Ohio, only 27th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wellington ranks 22,926 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,415 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 500 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wellington
At the 27th national percentile, Wellington 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 Wellington
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Wellington (80.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wellington's 22,926-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wellington, see the exposure-zones guide.