Gahanna, OH
Gahanna, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Gahanna at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 12,210 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gahanna's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Gahanna's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Gahanna's buildings (52% of 12,210) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 12,210 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Gahanna ranks
Compare Gahanna's two percentiles: 41st within Ohio, only 14th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gahanna ranks 27,077 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,270 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 745 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Gahanna and the insurance market
Gahanna's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 52% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gahanna 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gahanna's 27,077-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Gahanna, see the exposure-zones guide.