Dalton, OH
How exposed is Dalton to wildfire?
Dalton's 965 buildings earn a 15th-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 Dalton at the 16th national percentile — 1 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
Dalton rates 78.1% Minimal exposure against just 21.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 965 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Dalton ranks
Dalton's 43rd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 15th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dalton ranks 26,700 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,189 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 715 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Dalton and the insurance market
At the 15th national percentile, Dalton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 78.1% of Dalton 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
Dalton's 15th-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 Dalton, see the exposure-zones guide.