Vandalia, OH
How exposed is Vandalia to wildfire?
Vandalia's 6,694 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vandalia at the 16th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Where Vandalia's buildings actually sit
Only 16.5% of Vandalia's 6,694 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 83.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,694 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Vandalia against the rest of the country
Vandalia's 42nd-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 15th 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, Vandalia ranks 26,923 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,586 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 732 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
At the 15th national percentile, Vandalia 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
Vandalia's 83.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Vandalia's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vandalia's 26,923-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Vandalia's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.