Burket, IN
Burket, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Burket lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 113 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Burket's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
Burket's building exposure, zone by zone
87.6% of Burket's 113 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Burket against the rest of the country
Burket scores 2nd nationally and 14th within Indiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burket ranks 30,910 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,494 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 834 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Burket and the insurance market
Burket's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Burket 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Burket's 30,910-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Burket, see the exposure-zones guide.