Bristol, IN
How exposed is Bristol to wildfire?
USFS scores Bristol at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,040 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bristol at the 10th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bristol's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 53.9% of Bristol's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22.5% Direct and 23.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Bristol against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Bristol ranks higher (56th percentile) than it does nationally (10th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bristol ranks 28,357 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,653 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 427 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 10th national percentile, Bristol rates low 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 Bristol
With 53.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bristol gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,040 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bristol. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bristol, see the exposure-zones guide.