Wellsville, OH
Wellsville, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wellsville at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,565 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 Wellsville at the 40th percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
92.6% of Wellsville's 1,565 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 7.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Wellsville against the rest of the country
Compare Wellsville's two percentiles: 87th within Ohio, only 40th nationally — a gap of 47 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wellsville ranks 18,948 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 167 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wellsville
Wellsville's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wellsville's 92.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Wellsville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wellsville's 18,948-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wellsville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.