Fostoria, OH
How exposed is Fostoria to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fostoria at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 6,973 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fostoria's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Fostoria's buildings actually sit
Only 1.5% of Fostoria's 6,973 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,973 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Fostoria ranks
Fostoria scores 1st nationally and 6th within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fostoria ranks 31,181 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,477 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,182 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fostoria
Fostoria's low rating (1st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Fostoria
Even with 98.5% of Fostoria 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.
Where Fostoria's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fostoria's 31,181-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fostoria's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.