Batesville, IN
Batesville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Batesville lands at the 15th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 3,241 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Batesville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Batesville's buildings (53.3%) 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.
How Batesville compares
Within Indiana, Batesville ranks higher (68th percentile) than it does nationally (15th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Batesville ranks 26,907 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,115 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 314 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Batesville and the insurance market
Batesville's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Batesville's 53.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,241 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Batesville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Batesville, see the exposure-zones guide.