Zanesville, OH
How exposed is Zanesville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Zanesville lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 12,140 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Zanesville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
68.2% of Zanesville's 12,140 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 10% Direct and 21.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 12,140 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Zanesville compares
Zanesville's 68th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 31st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Zanesville ranks 21,695 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,282 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 404 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Zanesville and the insurance market
Zanesville's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Zanesville (68.2% 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 Zanesville's 21,695-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Zanesville, see the exposure-zones guide.