Boonville, IN
How exposed is Boonville to wildfire?
Boonville sits at the 34th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,993 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Boonville at the 36th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Boonville's buildings actually sit
Most of Boonville's buildings (67.7%) 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.
Where Boonville ranks
Within Indiana, Boonville ranks higher (94th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boonville ranks 20,697 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,252 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 54 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boonville
At the 34th national percentile, Boonville 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 Boonville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Boonville (67.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boonville's 20,697-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Boonville, see the exposure-zones guide.