Ai, OH
Ai, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ai at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 185 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 Ai at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Ai's buildings (82.7% of 185) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Ai ranks
There's little gap between Ai's 2nd national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ai ranks 31,025 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,429 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,130 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Ai and the insurance market
Ai's low rating (2nd 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 Ai
Ai's 82.7% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ai's 31,025-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ai, see the exposure-zones guide.