Dillsboro, IN
Dillsboro wildfire risk explained
Dillsboro's 689 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dillsboro at the 29th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Dillsboro's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Dillsboro (57.3% of 689 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 42.7% sit in the Direct zone.
Dillsboro against the rest of the country
Dillsboro's 92nd-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 27th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dillsboro ranks 23,159 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,765 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 78 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Dillsboro and the insurance market
Dillsboro's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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 Dillsboro
Because 57.3% of Dillsboro'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
Dillsboro's 27th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dillsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.