Deputy, IN
Deputy, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Deputy at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 78 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Deputy's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
Deputy's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 68% of Deputy's 78 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Deputy against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Deputy ranks higher (85th percentile) than it does nationally (22nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Deputy ranks 24,640 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 142 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Deputy
Deputy's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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.
Hardening a home in Deputy
Because 68% of Deputy'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Deputy's 24,640-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Deputy, see the exposure-zones guide.