Ansonia, OH
Ansonia, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ansonia at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 730 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 Ansonia at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Ansonia's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 4.9% of Ansonia's 730 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Ansonia ranks
Ansonia's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (5th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ansonia ranks 31,248 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,336 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,200 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Ansonia and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Ansonia 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
With 95.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ansonia gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Ansonia's figures come from
Ansonia's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ansonia's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.