Akron, IN
Akron wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Akron at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 663 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Akron at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Where Akron's buildings actually sit
Only 11.3% of Akron's 663 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Akron compares
Compare Akron's two percentiles: 30th within Indiana, only 4th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Akron ranks 30,216 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,026 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 673 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Akron and the insurance market
At the 4th national percentile, Akron rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 88.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Akron 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
Akron's 4th-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 Akron, see the exposure-zones guide.