Bright, IN
How exposed is Bright to wildfire?
Bright's 2,790 buildings earn a 22nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bright at the 24th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
2,790 buildings are counted in Bright, and 88.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Bright against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Bright ranks higher (87th percentile) than it does nationally (22nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bright ranks 24,512 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,783 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 130 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bright
At the 22nd national percentile, Bright 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 Bright
Bright's 88.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,790 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bright. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bright, see the exposure-zones guide.