New California, OH
New California wildfire risk explained
USFS scores New California at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 603 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 New California at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of New California's buildings (52.2% of 603) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
New California against the rest of the country
New California's 27th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 7th 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, New California ranks 29,479 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,804 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 920 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
New California and the insurance market
New California's low rating (7th 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
With 52.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, New California 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 New California's 29,479-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New California, see the exposure-zones guide.