Aurora, IN
Aurora wildfire risk explained
Aurora's 1,693 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aurora at the 24th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Aurora's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Aurora's buildings (54.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Aurora against the rest of the country
Aurora's 84th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 22nd 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, Aurora ranks 24,736 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,442 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 153 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
Aurora's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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 Aurora
Because 54.1% of Aurora's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aurora's 24,736-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Aurora, see the exposure-zones guide.