Calcutta, OH
How exposed is Calcutta to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Calcutta at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,423 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 Calcutta at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 74.6% of Calcutta's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 25.4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 1,808 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Calcutta compares
Calcutta's 85th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 39th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Calcutta ranks 19,262 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,458 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 192 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Calcutta and the insurance market
Calcutta's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Calcutta
Because Direct exposure dominates in Calcutta (74.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Calcutta's 19,262-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Calcutta, see the exposure-zones guide.