Blanford, IN
Blanford wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Blanford lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 268 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 Blanford at the 28th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Where Blanford's buildings actually sit
Blanford rates 61.6% Minimal exposure against just 38.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 268 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Blanford ranks
Within Indiana, Blanford ranks higher (93rd percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blanford ranks 22,621 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 66 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 28th national percentile, Blanford rates moderate 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 Blanford
Even with 61.6% of Blanford 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 Blanford's 22,621-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blanford, see the exposure-zones guide.