Alfordsville, IN
Alfordsville, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Alfordsville lands at the 15th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 76 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alfordsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Alfordsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Alfordsville rates 52.6% Minimal exposure against just 47.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 76 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Alfordsville against the rest of the country
Compare Alfordsville's two percentiles: 68th within Indiana, only 15th nationally — a gap of 53 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alfordsville ranks 26,784 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,043 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 305 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Alfordsville
Alfordsville's low wildfire rating (15th 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.
Hardening a home in Alfordsville
Even with 52.6% of Alfordsville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Alfordsville's 15th-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 Alfordsville, see the exposure-zones guide.