Huntertown, IN
How exposed is Huntertown to wildfire?
Huntertown sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,155 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Huntertown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Huntertown's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 18.3% of Huntertown's 4,155 buildings carry Direct exposure and 9.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 72.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Huntertown compares
Huntertown's 48th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 8th 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, Huntertown ranks 29,082 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,098 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 502 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Huntertown
At the 8th national percentile, Huntertown 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
Huntertown's 72.2% 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.
Where Huntertown's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Huntertown's 29,082-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Huntertown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.