Batavia, OH
How exposed is Batavia to wildfire?
Batavia's 876 buildings earn a 21st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Batavia at the 23rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Batavia's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Batavia (55.3% of 876 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 44.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Batavia against the rest of the country
Compare Batavia's two percentiles: 52nd within Ohio, only 21st nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Batavia ranks 24,779 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,943 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 603 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Batavia
Batavia's moderate rating (21st 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
Batavia's 55.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Batavia's 24,779-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Batavia, see the exposure-zones guide.