Chickasaw, OH
How exposed is Chickasaw to wildfire?
USFS scores Chickasaw at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 212 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chickasaw at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Chickasaw's buildings actually sit
85.9% of Chickasaw's 212 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 14.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Chickasaw against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Chickasaw's 1st national percentile and its 3rd percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chickasaw ranks 31,370 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,407 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,226 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chickasaw
Chickasaw's low rating (1st 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 Chickasaw
With 85.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Chickasaw gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Chickasaw's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chickasaw's 31,370-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chickasaw's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.