Gas City, IN
Gas City, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gas City at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,242 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gas City at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Gas City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 91.9% of Gas City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 8.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Gas City ranks
Gas City's 42nd-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 6th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gas City ranks 29,590 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,111 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 561 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Gas City and the insurance market
Gas City's low rating (6th 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
Gas City's 91.9% 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 Gas City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gas City's 29,590-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gas City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.