Edwardsport, IN
Edwardsport, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Edwardsport sits at the 6th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 262 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Edwardsport's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Where Edwardsport's buildings actually sit
Most of Edwardsport's buildings (61.1% of 262) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Edwardsport compares
Compare Edwardsport's two percentiles: 43rd within Indiana, only 6th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edwardsport ranks 29,558 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,768 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 554 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Edwardsport and the insurance market
Edwardsport's low wildfire rating (6th 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 Edwardsport
Edwardsport's 61.1% 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
Edwardsport's 6th-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 Edwardsport, see the exposure-zones guide.