Galion, OH
Galion, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Galion lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,894 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Galion at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Galion's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 87.4% of Galion's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,894 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Galion against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Galion ranks higher (27th percentile) than it does nationally (7th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Galion ranks 29,449 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,923 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 918 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Galion and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Galion rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Galion 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,894 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Galion. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Galion, see the exposure-zones guide.