West Carrollton, OH
West Carrollton, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, West Carrollton lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,230 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Carrollton at the 20th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where West Carrollton's buildings actually sit
95.6% of West Carrollton's 5,230 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,230 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where West Carrollton ranks
West Carrollton's 49th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 19th 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, West Carrollton ranks 25,698 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,297 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 653 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
West Carrollton and the insurance market
At the 19th national percentile, West Carrollton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
West Carrollton's 95.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Carrollton's 25,698-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Carrollton, see the exposure-zones guide.