Fountaintown, IN
Fountaintown wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Fountaintown at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 238 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fountaintown at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fountaintown's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Fountaintown: 53.4% of its 238 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 46.6% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Fountaintown compares
Within Indiana, Fountaintown ranks higher (33rd percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fountaintown ranks 30,065 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,523 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 642 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fountaintown
Fountaintown'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
Fountaintown's 53.4% 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.
Where Fountaintown's figures come from
Fountaintown's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fountaintown's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.