Pataskala, OH
Pataskala, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pataskala lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 7,493 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 Pataskala at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Pataskala: 46.7% of its 7,493 buildings, versus 22.5% Indirect and 30.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 7,493 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Pataskala ranks
Within Ohio, Pataskala ranks higher (40th percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pataskala ranks 27,270 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,283 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 757 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pataskala's low rating (14th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Pataskala's 46.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Pataskala's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pataskala's 27,270-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pataskala's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.