Rossford, OH
Rossford wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rossford at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,342 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rossford at the 5th national percentile — 1 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
Most of Rossford's buildings (96% of 3,342) 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.
How Rossford compares
Compare Rossford's two percentiles: 23rd within Ohio, only 5th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rossford ranks 30,115 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,991 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 973 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rossford
Rossford's low rating (5th 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 96% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Rossford 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 Rossford's 30,115-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rossford, see the exposure-zones guide.