Henryville, IN
Henryville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Henryville lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,085 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 Henryville at the 20th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Where Henryville's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Henryville: 57.7% of its 1,085 buildings, versus 42.3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Henryville compares
Henryville's 75th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 18th 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, Henryville ranks 25,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 242 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Henryville and the insurance market
Henryville's low wildfire rating (18th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 57.7% of Henryville 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 Henryville's 25,807-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Henryville, see the exposure-zones guide.