Brooksburg, IN
How exposed is Brooksburg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brooksburg at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 68 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brooksburg at the 22nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brooksburg's building exposure, zone by zone
60.3% of Brooksburg's 68 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 41 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 39.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Brooksburg compares
Brooksburg's 82nd-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 21st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brooksburg ranks 25,049 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,345 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 176 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Brooksburg and the insurance market
Brooksburg's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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 Brooksburg
With 60.3% of Brooksburg in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Brooksburg's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brooksburg, see the exposure-zones guide.