West Alexandria, OH
How exposed is West Alexandria to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Alexandria at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 856 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 West Alexandria at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 85.3% of West Alexandria's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.4% Direct and 8.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where West Alexandria ranks
Compare West Alexandria's two percentiles: 31st within Ohio, only 9th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Alexandria ranks 28,663 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,124 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 877 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
West Alexandria's low wildfire rating (9th 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.
Hardening a home in West Alexandria
Even with 85.3% of West Alexandria 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 856 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Alexandria. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Alexandria, see the exposure-zones guide.