West Leipsic, OH
West Leipsic, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
West Leipsic's 169 buildings earn a 0th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (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 Leipsic at the 0th percentile, close to its 0th-percentile risk score.
West Leipsic's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 94.1% of West Leipsic'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.
How West Leipsic compares
West Leipsic scores 0th nationally and 1st within Ohio — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Leipsic ranks 31,473 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,079 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,255 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
West Leipsic and the insurance market
At the 0th national percentile, West Leipsic 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 94.1% of West Leipsic 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
West Leipsic's 0th-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 West Leipsic, see the exposure-zones guide.