Glezen, IN
Glezen wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glezen lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 229 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glezen at the 36th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Glezen's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Glezen's 229 counted buildings, 91.7% carry Direct exposure and only 3.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Glezen against the rest of the country
Glezen's 95th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 34th 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, Glezen ranks 20,667 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,817 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 53 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Glezen and the insurance market
Glezen's moderate rating (34th 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
Glezen's 91.7% 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 Glezen's figures come from
Glezen's 34th-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 Glezen's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.