Amanda, OH
How exposed is Amanda to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Amanda lands at the 4th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 453 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Amanda at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 91.6% of Amanda's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 8.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Amanda compares
Amanda's 23rd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 4th 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, Amanda ranks 30,143 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,224 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 974 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Amanda and the insurance market
Amanda's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Amanda's 91.6% 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 Amanda's 30,143-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Amanda, see the exposure-zones guide.