Granger, IN
How exposed is Granger to wildfire?
USFS scores Granger at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 12,573 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Granger at the 8th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 28.8% of Granger's 12,573 buildings carry Direct exposure and 17.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 12,573 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Granger against the rest of the country
Compare Granger's two percentiles: 45th within Indiana, only 7th nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Granger ranks 29,398 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,221 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 533 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Granger and the insurance market
Granger's low rating (7th 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 54.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Granger gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Granger's figures come from
Granger's 7th-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 Granger's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.