Custar, OH
Custar, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Custar's 152 buildings earn a 0th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Custar at the 0th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Custar rates 90.8% Minimal exposure against just 9.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 152 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Custar ranks
Custar's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (0th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Custar ranks 31,499 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,815 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,257 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Custar's low rating (0th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 90.8% of Custar outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Custar's 31,499-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Custar, see the exposure-zones guide.