Dover Hill, IN
How exposed is Dover Hill to wildfire?
Dover Hill's 117 buildings earn a 19th-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 Dover Hill at the 21st percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Dover Hill's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 117 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Dover Hill ranks
Within Indiana, Dover Hill ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (19th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dover Hill ranks 25,395 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,296 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 213 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dover Hill
At the 19th national percentile, Dover Hill rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Dover Hill's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dover Hill's 25,395-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dover Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.