Cridersville, OH
How exposed is Cridersville to wildfire?
USFS scores Cridersville at the 3rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 939 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cridersville at the 4th percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Where Cridersville's buildings actually sit
Cridersville rates 91.5% Minimal exposure against just 8.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 939 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Cridersville ranks
Compare Cridersville's two percentiles: 19th within Ohio, only 3rd nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cridersville ranks 30,460 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,403 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,020 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Cridersville and the insurance market
Cridersville's low wildfire rating (3rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 91.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cridersville 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
Cridersville's 3rd-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 Cridersville, see the exposure-zones guide.