Williamsdale, OH
Williamsdale, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Williamsdale at the 18th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 383 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Williamsdale at the 20th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Williamsdale's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Williamsdale (95.3% of 383 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 4.7% sit in the Direct zone.
Williamsdale against the rest of the country
Compare Williamsdale's two percentiles: 48th within Ohio, only 18th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Williamsdale ranks 25,883 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,570 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 664 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 18th national percentile, Williamsdale 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
Williamsdale's 95.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Williamsdale's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Williamsdale, see the exposure-zones guide.