Candlewood Lake, OH
How exposed is Candlewood Lake to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Candlewood Lake at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 879 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Candlewood Lake at the 17th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 81.3% of Candlewood Lake's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 4.9% Indirect share and far above its 13.8% Minimal share — a profile where 715 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Candlewood Lake ranks
Within Ohio, Candlewood Lake ranks higher (47th percentile) than it does nationally (18th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Candlewood Lake ranks 26,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,919 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 671 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Candlewood Lake and the insurance market
Candlewood Lake's low wildfire rating (18th 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.
Hardening a home in Candlewood Lake
With 81.3% of Candlewood Lake in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 879 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Candlewood Lake. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Candlewood Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.