Kalida, OH
Kalida wildfire risk explained
Kalida's 740 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kalida at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kalida's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 12.3% of Kalida's 740 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Kalida against the rest of the country
Kalida scores 2nd nationally and 12th 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, Kalida ranks 30,932 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,221 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,107 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kalida
Kalida's low wildfire rating (2nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Kalida's 87.7% 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 Kalida's 30,932-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kalida, see the exposure-zones guide.