Burns City, IN
Burns City, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Burns City at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 113 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Burns City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
Burns City's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Burns City's 113 counted buildings, 61.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Burns City against the rest of the country
Burns City's 77th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 19th 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, Burns City ranks 25,490 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,495 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 225 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 19th national percentile, Burns City rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Burns City (61.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Burns City's 19th-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 Burns City, see the exposure-zones guide.