Carbon, IN
Carbon wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Carbon lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 225 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Carbon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Carbon's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Carbon (67.1% of 225 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 32.9% sit in the Direct zone.
How Carbon compares
Within Indiana, Carbon 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, Carbon ranks 27,034 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,940 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 324 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Carbon
At the 14th national percentile, Carbon 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 Carbon
Because 67.1% of Carbon's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Carbon's 27,034-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Carbon, see the exposure-zones guide.