Chillicothe, OH
How exposed is Chillicothe to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Chillicothe lands at the 33rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 11,265 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chillicothe at the 35th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Chillicothe's buildings actually sit
11,265 buildings are counted in Chillicothe, and 67.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 12.8% in Direct exposure or the 20.1% rated Minimal. At 11,265 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Chillicothe against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Chillicothe ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chillicothe ranks 21,215 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,403 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 353 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chillicothe
Chillicothe's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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 Chillicothe
Because 67.1% of Chillicothe's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Chillicothe's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Chillicothe, see the exposure-zones guide.