Ostrander, OH
Ostrander wildfire risk explained
Ostrander's 413 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ostrander's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Ostrander's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 44.1% of Ostrander's 413 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 55.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Ostrander against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Ostrander ranks higher (25th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ostrander ranks 29,891 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,975 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 954 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ostrander
At the 5th national percentile, Ostrander 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
Even with 55.9% of Ostrander 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
Ostrander's 5th-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 Ostrander, see the exposure-zones guide.