Wapakoneta, OH
Wapakoneta wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wapakoneta lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,290 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wapakoneta at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wapakoneta's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 94.1% of Wapakoneta's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,290 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Wapakoneta against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Wapakoneta's 2nd national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wapakoneta ranks 30,936 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,258 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,111 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wapakoneta
At the 2nd national percentile, Wapakoneta 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
Wapakoneta's 94.1% 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 Wapakoneta's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wapakoneta's 30,936-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wapakoneta's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.