Cassville, IN
How exposed is Cassville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cassville lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 263 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cassville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
Cassville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 74.9% of Cassville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 25.1% Minimal share — a profile where 197 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Cassville ranks
Compare Cassville's two percentiles: 23rd within Indiana, only 3rd nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cassville ranks 30,509 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,722 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 744 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Cassville and the insurance market
Cassville's low rating (3rd 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
Cassville's 74.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Cassville's 3rd-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 Cassville, see the exposure-zones guide.