New Washington, OH
New Washington, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts New Washington at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 697 actual buildings. (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 Washington at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Where New Washington's buildings actually sit
Only 12.9% of New Washington's 697 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
New Washington against the rest of the country
New Washington's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (7th 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 Washington ranks 31,122 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,692 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,169 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
New Washington and the insurance market
New Washington's low rating (1st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in New Washington
Even with 87.1% of New Washington outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 697 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Washington. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Washington, see the exposure-zones guide.