West Elkton, OH
West Elkton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Elkton at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 146 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Elkton at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
West Elkton's building exposure, zone by zone
West Elkton rates 77.4% Minimal exposure against just 22.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 146 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
West Elkton against the rest of the country
Compare West Elkton's two percentiles: 29th within Ohio, only 8th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Elkton ranks 29,041 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,039 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 903 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Elkton
West Elkton's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in West Elkton
West Elkton's 77.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
West Elkton's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Elkton, see the exposure-zones guide.