Sparta, OH
Sparta, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sparta at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 107 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sparta at the 20th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sparta's buildings actually sit
Only 25.2% of Sparta's 107 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 74.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Sparta compares
Sparta's 51st-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 21st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sparta ranks 25,067 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,748 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 618 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sparta
Sparta's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
Hardening a home in Sparta
With 74.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sparta 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 Sparta's 25,067-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sparta, see the exposure-zones guide.