Crawfordsville, IN
Crawfordsville, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crawfordsville at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 7,657 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Crawfordsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
Where Crawfordsville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 87% of Crawfordsville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 7,657 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Crawfordsville compares
Compare Crawfordsville's two percentiles: 52nd within Indiana, only 9th nationally — a gap of 43 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crawfordsville ranks 28,764 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,229 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 465 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Crawfordsville and the insurance market
Crawfordsville's low wildfire rating (9th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Crawfordsville's 87% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,657 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crawfordsville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Crawfordsville, see the exposure-zones guide.