Brownsville, IN
How exposed is Brownsville to wildfire?
USFS scores Brownsville at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 177 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brownsville at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Where Brownsville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 52.5% of Brownsville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 47.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 93 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Brownsville against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Brownsville ranks higher (67th percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownsville ranks 26,939 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,747 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 317 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 14th national percentile, Brownsville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Brownsville's 52.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brownsville's 26,939-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brownsville, see the exposure-zones guide.