Cynthiana, IN
Cynthiana, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cynthiana's 416 buildings earn a 2nd-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 Cynthiana at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Cynthiana's building exposure, zone by zone
Cynthiana rates 71.4% Minimal exposure against just 28.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 416 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Cynthiana ranks
Cynthiana scores 2nd nationally and 12th within Indiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cynthiana ranks 30,979 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,906 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 847 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Cynthiana and the insurance market
At the 2nd national percentile, Cynthiana rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Cynthiana's 71.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cynthiana's 30,979-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cynthiana, see the exposure-zones guide.