Anderson, IN
How exposed is Anderson to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Anderson lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 29,555 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Anderson at the 7th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Anderson's building exposure, zone by zone
87.5% of Anderson's 29,555 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 29,555 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Anderson ranks
Within Indiana, Anderson ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Anderson ranks 29,526 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 392 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 547 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Anderson
At the 6th national percentile, Anderson 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
With 87.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Anderson 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
Anderson's 6th-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 Anderson, see the exposure-zones guide.