Richwood, OH
Richwood, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Richwood lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,245 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Richwood at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 12.9% of Richwood's 1,245 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Richwood ranks
Richwood scores 2nd nationally and 13th 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, Richwood ranks 30,906 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,103 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
Richwood's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Richwood
Even with 87.2% of Richwood 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Richwood's 30,906-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Richwood, see the exposure-zones guide.