Canal Winchester, OH
How exposed is Canal Winchester to wildfire?
USFS scores Canal Winchester at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,517 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Canal Winchester's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
Where Canal Winchester's buildings actually sit
Most of Canal Winchester's buildings (76.6% of 3,517) 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.
Canal Winchester against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Canal Winchester ranks higher (35th percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canal Winchester ranks 27,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,754 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 820 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Canal Winchester
At the 12th national percentile, Canal Winchester 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
With 76.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Canal Winchester 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,517 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Canal Winchester. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Canal Winchester, see the exposure-zones guide.