Landen, OH
Landen wildfire risk explained
Landen sits at the 14th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,210 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Landen at the 16th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Landen's buildings actually sit
Landen rates 48.5% Minimal exposure against just 35.7% Direct and 15.8% Indirect — of 2,210 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Landen against the rest of the country
Landen's 41st-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 14th 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, Landen ranks 27,208 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,909 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 754 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Landen and the insurance market
Landen's low rating (14th 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
With 48.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Landen 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Landen's 27,208-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Landen, see the exposure-zones guide.