Grissom AFB, IN
How exposed is Grissom AFB to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grissom AFB lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 950 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grissom AFB at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Grissom AFB's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 94% of Grissom AFB's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Grissom AFB against the rest of the country
Compare Grissom AFB's two percentiles: 23rd within Indiana, only 3rd nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grissom AFB ranks 30,478 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,306 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 736 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Grissom AFB's low rating (3rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Grissom AFB
Even with 94% of Grissom AFB outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Grissom AFB's 30,478-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Grissom AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.