Wickliffe, OH
Wickliffe, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Wickliffe at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,311 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wickliffe at the 26th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wickliffe's building exposure, zone by zone
96.5% of Wickliffe's 7,311 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,311 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Wickliffe against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Wickliffe ranks higher (56th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wickliffe ranks 24,028 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,343 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 553 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Wickliffe and the insurance market
Wickliffe's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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
Wickliffe's 96.5% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,311 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wickliffe. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wickliffe, see the exposure-zones guide.