Cannelburg, IN
Cannelburg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cannelburg at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 114 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cannelburg at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Cannelburg rates 54.4% Minimal exposure against just 45.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 114 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Cannelburg against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Cannelburg ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cannelburg ranks 29,556 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,447 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 552 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Cannelburg and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Cannelburg rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Cannelburg
Even with 54.4% of Cannelburg outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Cannelburg's figures come from
Cannelburg's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cannelburg's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.