Fortville, IN
Fortville, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fortville's 2,280 buildings earn a 5th-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 Fortville at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 91.8% of Fortville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 8.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Fortville against the rest of the country
Compare Fortville's two percentiles: 38th within Indiana, only 5th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fortville ranks 29,841 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,746 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 603 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Fortville and the insurance market
Fortville's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Fortville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Fortville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,280 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fortville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fortville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.