Rarden, OH
Rarden wildfire risk explained
Rarden's 130 buildings earn a 55th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rarden at the 56th percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
Rarden's building exposure, zone by zone
63.1% of Rarden's 130 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 36.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Rarden against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Rarden ranks higher (99th percentile) than it does nationally (55th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rarden ranks 14,161 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,729 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 19 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rarden
At the 55th national percentile, Rarden rates elevated 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
Rarden's 63.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rarden's 14,161-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rarden, see the exposure-zones guide.