Dale, IN
Dale wildfire risk explained
Dale's 871 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Where Dale's buildings actually sit
Dale rates 54% Minimal exposure against just 45.4% Direct and 0.7% Indirect — of 871 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Dale ranks
Compare Dale's two percentiles: 73rd within Indiana, only 17th nationally — a gap of 55 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dale ranks 26,120 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,973 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 264 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dale
At the 17th national percentile, Dale 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
With 54% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Dale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Dale's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dale, see the exposure-zones guide.