West Mansfield, OH
West Mansfield wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Mansfield at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 531 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Mansfield at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where West Mansfield's buildings actually sit
West Mansfield rates 67.6% Minimal exposure against just 32.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 531 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where West Mansfield ranks
West Mansfield's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (14th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Mansfield ranks 30,840 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,853 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,087 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Mansfield
At the 2nd national percentile, West Mansfield rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 67.6% of West Mansfield 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 531 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Mansfield. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Mansfield, see the exposure-zones guide.