Williamsport, OH
Williamsport, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Williamsport at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 569 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Williamsport at the 6th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Williamsport's buildings actually sit
Most of Williamsport's buildings (83% of 569) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Williamsport ranks
Williamsport's 24th-percentile standing inside Ohio outpaces its 5th 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, Williamsport ranks 29,959 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,272 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 959 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Williamsport and the insurance market
Williamsport's low wildfire rating (5th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 83% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Williamsport 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
Williamsport's 5th-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 Williamsport, see the exposure-zones guide.