Ottoville, OH
Ottoville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Ottoville lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 612 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ottoville at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Ottoville's buildings (94.4% of 612) 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.
Where Ottoville ranks
Ottoville scores 1st nationally and 3rd within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ottoville ranks 31,377 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,672 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,233 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ottoville
At the 1st national percentile, Ottoville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Ottoville's 94.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Ottoville's figures come from
Ottoville's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ottoville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.