Avilla, IN
Avilla wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Avilla lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,098 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Avilla's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
Avilla's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Avilla's buildings (85.9% of 1,098) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Avilla against the rest of the country
Compare Avilla's two percentiles: 38th within Indiana, only 5th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Avilla ranks 29,810 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,288 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 597 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Avilla
At the 5th national percentile, Avilla 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
Even with 85.9% of Avilla 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Avilla's 29,810-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Avilla, see the exposure-zones guide.