Hashtown, IN
Hashtown wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Hashtown at the 17th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 136 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hashtown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Hashtown's building exposure, zone by zone
136 buildings are counted in Hashtown, and 93.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Hashtown compares
Within Indiana, Hashtown ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (17th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hashtown ranks 26,153 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,438 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 271 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hashtown
At the 17th national percentile, Hashtown rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 93.4% of Hashtown in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hashtown's 26,153-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hashtown, see the exposure-zones guide.