Ithaca, OH
How exposed is Ithaca to wildfire?
USFS scores Ithaca at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 75 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ithaca at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Ithaca's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93.3% of Ithaca's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Ithaca ranks
Compare Ithaca's two percentiles: 22nd within Ohio, only 4th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ithaca ranks 30,240 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,101 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 994 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Ithaca's low rating (4th 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
Ithaca's 93.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ithaca's 30,240-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ithaca, see the exposure-zones guide.