Fort Shawnee, OH
How exposed is Fort Shawnee to wildfire?
Fort Shawnee sits at the 5th 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 3,508 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fort Shawnee at the 5th 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
56.5% of Fort Shawnee's 3,508 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 43.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Fort Shawnee ranks
Within Ohio, Fort Shawnee ranks higher (23rd percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Shawnee ranks 30,083 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,762 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 969 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Shawnee
Fort Shawnee's low wildfire rating (5th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Fort Shawnee's 56.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fort Shawnee's 5th-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 Fort Shawnee, see the exposure-zones guide.