Fort Branch, IN
Fort Branch, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Branch's 1,573 buildings earn a 2nd-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, Fort Branch's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 88.1% of Fort Branch's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Fort Branch compares
There's little gap between Fort Branch's 2nd national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Branch ranks 31,040 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,871 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 860 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Branch
Fort Branch's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Fort Branch's 88.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Branch's 31,040-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fort Branch, see the exposure-zones guide.