LaGrange, OH
How exposed is LaGrange to wildfire?
USFS scores LaGrange at the 20th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,183 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 LaGrange at the 21st percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
LaGrange's building exposure, zone by zone
81.7% of LaGrange's 1,183 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 18.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
LaGrange against the rest of the country
LaGrange's 51st-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 20th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, LaGrange ranks 25,193 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,749 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 623 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
LaGrange and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, LaGrange rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in LaGrange
LaGrange's 81.7% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,183 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for LaGrange. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond LaGrange, see the exposure-zones guide.