Delta, OH
Delta wildfire risk explained
Delta sits at the 1st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,812 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Delta's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
88.7% of Delta's 1,812 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 11.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Delta compares
There's little gap between Delta's 1st national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Delta ranks 31,119 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,028 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,166 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Delta and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Delta rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 88.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Delta 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
Delta's 1st-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 Delta, see the exposure-zones guide.