Hessen Cassel, IN
Hessen Cassel, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Hessen Cassel at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 234 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hessen Cassel at the 4th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hessen Cassel's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Hessen Cassel: 50% of its 234 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 50% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Hessen Cassel against the rest of the country
Hessen Cassel's 30th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 4th 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, Hessen Cassel ranks 30,254 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,660 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 684 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Hessen Cassel and the insurance market
Hessen Cassel's low wildfire rating (4th 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.
Hardening a home in Hessen Cassel
With 50% of Hessen Cassel 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 Hessen Cassel's 30,254-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hessen Cassel, see the exposure-zones guide.