Catawba, OH
Catawba, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Catawba lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 194 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Catawba at the 13th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Catawba's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 46.9% of Catawba's 194 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 53.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Catawba compares
Within Ohio, Catawba ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Catawba ranks 27,585 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,093 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 788 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Catawba
At the 13th national percentile, Catawba 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 53.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Catawba 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
Catawba's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Catawba, see the exposure-zones guide.