St. Paris, OH
How exposed is St. Paris to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, St. Paris lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,085 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks St. Paris at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
St. Paris's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 19.6% of St. Paris's 1,085 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 80.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
St. Paris against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, St. Paris 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, St. Paris ranks 29,892 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,377 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 955 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. Paris
At the 5th national percentile, St. Paris rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 80.4% of St. Paris 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind St. Paris's 29,892-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond St. Paris, see the exposure-zones guide.