Curtice, OH
Curtice wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Curtice lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,009 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Curtice at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Curtice's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 77.8% of Curtice's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Curtice compares
There's little gap between Curtice's 2nd national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Curtice ranks 30,962 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,874 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,113 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Curtice and the insurance market
Curtice's low wildfire rating (2nd 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 77.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Curtice 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
Curtice's 2nd-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 Curtice, see the exposure-zones guide.