Crandall, IN
How exposed is Crandall to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crandall at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 115 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crandall's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Crandall's 115 counted buildings, 58.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Crandall compares
Within Indiana, Crandall ranks higher (90th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crandall ranks 23,857 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,405 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 97 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
Crandall'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Crandall's 58.3% 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
Crandall's 24th-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 Crandall, see the exposure-zones guide.