Rudolph, OH
Rudolph wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rudolph at the 2nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 279 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rudolph at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Rudolph rates 81.4% Minimal exposure against just 18.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 279 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Rudolph compares
Rudolph's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rudolph ranks 30,934 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,233 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,109 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rudolph
Rudolph's low wildfire rating (2nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 81.4% of Rudolph 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 279 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rudolph. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rudolph, see the exposure-zones guide.