Alamo, IN
How exposed is Alamo to wildfire?
Alamo sits at the 11th 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 75 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 Alamo at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Alamo's buildings actually sit
64% of Alamo's 75 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 36% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Alamo compares
Alamo's 58th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 11th 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, Alamo ranks 28,165 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,080 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 407 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 11th national percentile, Alamo rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Alamo
Alamo's 64% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alamo's 28,165-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alamo, see the exposure-zones guide.