Kanauga, OH
Kanauga, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kanauga sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 161 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kanauga at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Kanauga's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 96.3% of Kanauga's 161 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 3.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Kanauga against the rest of the country
Compare Kanauga's two percentiles: 85th within Ohio, only 39th nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kanauga ranks 19,264 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,397 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 194 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
Kanauga's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 96.3% of Kanauga's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Kanauga's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kanauga's 19,264-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kanauga's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.