Crows Nest, IN
Crows Nest, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Crows Nest sits at the 12th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 65 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crows Nest at the 15th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Crows Nest's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Crows Nest's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 65 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Crows Nest compares
Compare Crows Nest's two percentiles: 62nd within Indiana, only 12th nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crows Nest ranks 27,667 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,454 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 369 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crows Nest
Crows Nest's low wildfire rating (12th 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
With 100% of Crows Nest 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crows Nest's 27,667-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Crows Nest, see the exposure-zones guide.