Woodsdale, OH
Woodsdale, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Woodsdale sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 365 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Woodsdale at the 12th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Where Woodsdale's buildings actually sit
Of Woodsdale's 365 counted buildings, 54.5% carry Direct exposure and only 45.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Woodsdale ranks
Compare Woodsdale's two percentiles: 32nd within Ohio, only 10th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodsdale ranks 28,317 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,968 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 860 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodsdale
At the 10th national percentile, Woodsdale 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Woodsdale (54.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodsdale's 28,317-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Woodsdale, see the exposure-zones guide.