Sardis, OH
Sardis wildfire risk explained
Sardis's 447 buildings earn a 42nd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sardis at the 43rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sardis's building exposure, zone by zone
447 buildings are counted in Sardis, and 62.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 36.9% in Direct exposure or the 0.2% rated Minimal.
Where Sardis ranks
Within Ohio, Sardis ranks higher (94th percentile) than it does nationally (42nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sardis ranks 18,163 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,338 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 85 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
Sardis's elevated rating (42nd 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 Sardis
Because 62.9% of Sardis's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sardis's 42nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sardis, see the exposure-zones guide.