Piqua, OH
How exposed is Piqua to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Piqua at the 4th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 10,771 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 Piqua at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
93.9% of Piqua's 10,771 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 10,771 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Piqua ranks
Within Ohio, Piqua ranks higher (20th percentile) than it does nationally (4th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Piqua ranks 30,333 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,471 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,005 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Piqua and the insurance market
Piqua's low rating (4th 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
With 93.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Piqua 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Piqua's 30,333-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Piqua, see the exposure-zones guide.