Colfax, IN
Colfax, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Colfax's 466 buildings earn a 1st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Colfax's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Colfax's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 13.7% of Colfax's 466 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Colfax against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Colfax's 1st national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Colfax ranks 31,166 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,955 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 885 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Colfax
At the 1st national percentile, Colfax rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Colfax's 86.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Colfax's 1st-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 Colfax, see the exposure-zones guide.