Griffith, IN
Griffith wildfire risk explained
Griffith's 7,668 buildings earn a 55th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Griffith at the 57th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Griffith's buildings actually sit
Only 3.2% of Griffith's 7,668 buildings carry Direct exposure and 21.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 75.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,668 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Griffith ranks
Within Indiana, Griffith ranks higher (99th percentile) than it does nationally (55th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Griffith ranks 14,112 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,226 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 8 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Griffith
Griffith's elevated rating (55th 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
Griffith's 75.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Griffith's 14,112-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Griffith, see the exposure-zones guide.