Crothersville, IN
Crothersville, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Crothersville's 1,020 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crothersville at the 13th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Where Crothersville's buildings actually sit
61.6% of Crothersville's 1,020 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.4% Direct and 1.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Crothersville ranks
Compare Crothersville's two percentiles: 63rd within Indiana, only 13th nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crothersville ranks 27,571 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,797 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 362 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Crothersville and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Crothersville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 61.6% of Crothersville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,020 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crothersville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crothersville, see the exposure-zones guide.