New Riegel, OH
New Riegel wildfire risk explained
New Riegel sits at the 1st 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 208 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 New Riegel at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Where New Riegel's buildings actually sit
New Riegel rates 98.1% Minimal exposure against just 1.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 208 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where New Riegel ranks
New Riegel's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (3rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Riegel ranks 31,344 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,568 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,221 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Riegel
At the 1st national percentile, New Riegel rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, New Riegel 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
New Riegel's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Riegel, see the exposure-zones guide.