Cordry Sweetwater Lakes, IN
Cordry Sweetwater Lakes, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cordry Sweetwater Lakes's 1,115 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cordry Sweetwater Lakes at the 25th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Cordry Sweetwater Lakes's buildings actually sit
1,115 buildings are counted in Cordry Sweetwater Lakes, and 92.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 7% rated Minimal.
How Cordry Sweetwater Lakes compares
Cordry Sweetwater Lakes's 90th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 24th 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, Cordry Sweetwater Lakes ranks 23,983 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,183 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 101 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
Cordry Sweetwater Lakes's moderate rating (24th 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
With 92.9% of Cordry Sweetwater Lakes in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,115 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cordry Sweetwater Lakes. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cordry Sweetwater Lakes, see the exposure-zones guide.