Whites Landing, OH
How exposed is Whites Landing to wildfire?
USFS scores Whites Landing at the 3rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 285 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Whites Landing's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
Where Whites Landing's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 87% of Whites Landing's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Whites Landing compares
Whites Landing's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (3rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Whites Landing ranks 30,558 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,041 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,035 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Whites Landing and the insurance market
Whites Landing's low wildfire rating (3rd 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 Whites Landing
With 87% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Whites Landing gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Whites Landing's 30,558-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Whites Landing, see the exposure-zones guide.