Barbee, IN
Barbee, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Barbee's 1,145 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Barbee at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 68% of Barbee's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 32% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Barbee ranks
Within Indiana, Barbee ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barbee ranks 29,811 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,988 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 598 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 5th national percentile, Barbee 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 Barbee
With 68% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Barbee 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Barbee's 29,811-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Barbee, see the exposure-zones guide.