Etna, OH
Etna wildfire risk explained
Etna sits at the 8th 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 557 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Etna at the 10th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 28.4% of Etna's 557 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 71.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Etna compares
Within Ohio, Etna ranks higher (30th percentile) than it does nationally (8th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Etna ranks 28,884 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 888 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Etna
Etna's low wildfire rating (8th 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.
Hardening a home in Etna
With 71.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Etna 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
Etna's 8th-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 Etna, see the exposure-zones guide.