West Milton, OH
How exposed is West Milton to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, West Milton lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,252 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Milton at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where West Milton's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 81.4% of West Milton's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How West Milton compares
Within Ohio, West Milton ranks higher (29th percentile) than it does nationally (8th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Milton ranks 29,042 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,810 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 904 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
At the 8th national percentile, West Milton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in West Milton
Even with 81.4% of West Milton 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Milton's 29,042-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 Milton, see the exposure-zones guide.