Freelandville, IN
Freelandville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Freelandville lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 594 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Freelandville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
Freelandville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 62.1% of Freelandville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 37.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Freelandville against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Freelandville ranks higher (24th percentile) than it does nationally (3rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Freelandville ranks 30,477 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,909 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 735 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Freelandville
Freelandville's low wildfire rating (3rd 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 Freelandville
Freelandville's 62.1% 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.
Where Freelandville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Freelandville's 30,477-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Freelandville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.