Boswell, IN
How exposed is Boswell to wildfire?
USFS scores Boswell at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 609 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boswell's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Boswell's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 89.2% of Boswell's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Boswell compares
There's little gap between Boswell's 1st national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boswell ranks 31,262 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,701 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 908 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Boswell and the insurance market
Boswell's low wildfire rating (1st 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 Boswell
Boswell's 89.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boswell's 31,262-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Boswell, see the exposure-zones guide.