Blountsville, IN
Blountsville wildfire risk explained
Blountsville sits at the 4th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 102 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blountsville at the 4th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 46.1% of Blountsville's 102 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 53.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Blountsville compares
Within Indiana, Blountsville ranks higher (30th percentile) than it does nationally (4th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blountsville ranks 30,251 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,944 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 681 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
Blountsville's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 53.9% of Blountsville 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.
Where Blountsville's figures come from
Blountsville's 4th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blountsville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.