Burnettsville, IN
How exposed is Burnettsville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Burnettsville lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 320 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Burnettsville at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
80.3% of Burnettsville's 320 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 19.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Burnettsville compares
There's little gap between Burnettsville's 2nd national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burnettsville ranks 30,886 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,088 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 826 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
Burnettsville'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.
Hardening a home in Burnettsville
With 80.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Burnettsville 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
Burnettsville's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Burnettsville, see the exposure-zones guide.