Brazil, IN
Brazil wildfire risk explained
Brazil's 4,381 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brazil's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Brazil (71.4% of 4,381 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.9% sit in the Direct zone.
How Brazil compares
Within Indiana, Brazil ranks higher (63rd percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brazil ranks 27,447 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,894 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 355 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Brazil and the insurance market
Brazil's low wildfire rating (13th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 71.4% of Brazil's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brazil's 27,447-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brazil, see the exposure-zones guide.