Wauseon, OH
Wauseon wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wauseon at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,427 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wauseon at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Wauseon's building exposure, zone by zone
91.3% of Wauseon's 3,427 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Wauseon against the rest of the country
Wauseon's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wauseon ranks 31,189 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,876 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,190 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Wauseon and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Wauseon 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 91.3% of Wauseon 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
Wauseon's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wauseon, see the exposure-zones guide.