Sidney, OH
Sidney, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sidney sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 9,510 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sidney's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Sidney's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 10.7% of Sidney's 9,510 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,510 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Sidney compares
Within Ohio, Sidney ranks higher (25th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sidney ranks 29,829 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,712 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 947 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sidney
Sidney'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 89.3% of Sidney 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.
Where Sidney's figures come from
Sidney's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sidney's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.