Boone Grove, IN
Boone Grove wildfire risk explained
Boone Grove's 114 buildings earn a 18th-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 Boone Grove at the 18th 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 57.9% of Boone Grove's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 42.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Boone Grove compares
Compare Boone Grove's two percentiles: 74th within Indiana, only 18th nationally — a gap of 56 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boone Grove ranks 25,932 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,445 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 252 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boone Grove
Boone Grove's low wildfire rating (18th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Boone Grove
Boone Grove's 57.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Boone Grove's figures come from
Boone Grove's 18th-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 Boone Grove's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.