Walbridge, OH
Walbridge wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Walbridge lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,889 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Walbridge at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Where Walbridge's buildings actually sit
Walbridge rates 98.7% Minimal exposure against just 1.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,889 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Walbridge against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Walbridge's 3rd national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walbridge ranks 30,590 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,041 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Walbridge and the insurance market
Walbridge's low wildfire rating (3rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Walbridge 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 Walbridge's 30,590-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Walbridge, see the exposure-zones guide.