Arcanum, OH
How exposed is Arcanum to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Arcanum lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,362 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Arcanum's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Arcanum's buildings actually sit
Arcanum rates 90.9% Minimal exposure against just 9.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,362 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Arcanum ranks
Arcanum's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (4th 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, Arcanum ranks 31,343 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,775 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,220 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 1st national percentile, Arcanum 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
Arcanum's 90.9% 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
Arcanum's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Arcanum, see the exposure-zones guide.