Botkins, OH
Botkins wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Botkins lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 748 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Botkins's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Botkins's buildings actually sit
Most of Botkins's buildings (90.1% of 748) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Botkins against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Botkins's 1st national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Botkins ranks 31,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,144 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,163 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Botkins
Botkins's low wildfire rating (1st 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
With 90.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Botkins gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Botkins's 31,116-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Botkins, see the exposure-zones guide.