Galena, OH
Galena wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Galena at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 505 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Galena at the 17th national percentile — 2 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
Of Galena's 505 counted buildings, 68.9% carry Direct exposure and only 31.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Galena compares
Within Ohio, Galena ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (15th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Galena ranks 26,701 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,260 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 716 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Galena and the insurance market
Galena's low rating (15th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Galena (68.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 505 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Galena. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Galena, see the exposure-zones guide.