Baltic, OH
Baltic, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Baltic lands at the 35th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 453 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Baltic at the 37th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Where Baltic's buildings actually sit
453 buildings are counted in Baltic, and 74.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Baltic compares
Within Ohio, Baltic ranks higher (75th percentile) than it does nationally (35th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Baltic ranks 20,620 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,225 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 312 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
Baltic's moderate wildfire rating (35th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 74.2% of Baltic's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Baltic's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Baltic, see the exposure-zones guide.