Wooster, OH
How exposed is Wooster to wildfire?
Wooster sits at the 21st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 10,309 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 Wooster at the 23rd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Wooster's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 15.7% of Wooster's 10,309 buildings carry Direct exposure and 17.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 66.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 10,309 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Wooster against the rest of the country
Within Ohio, Wooster ranks higher (52nd percentile) than it does nationally (21st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wooster ranks 24,841 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,552 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 611 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 21st national percentile, Wooster rates moderate 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
Wooster's 66.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Wooster's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,309 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wooster. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wooster's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.