Brookville, IN
Brookville, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brookville's 1,629 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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brookville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
Brookville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 89.7% of Brookville's 1,629 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 10.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Brookville compares
Compare Brookville's two percentiles: 87th within Indiana, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 65 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brookville ranks 24,479 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,653 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 124 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
Brookville's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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 89.7% of Brookville'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 Brookville's 24,479-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brookville, see the exposure-zones guide.