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How exposed is Ireland to wildfire?
USFS scores Ireland at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 188 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ireland at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Ireland's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 25% of Ireland's 188 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 75% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Ireland against the rest of the country
Compare Ireland's two percentiles: 40th within Indiana, only 6th nationally — a gap of 35 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ireland ranks 29,685 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,313 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 578 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Ireland and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Ireland rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 75% of Ireland 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
Ireland's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ireland, see the exposure-zones guide.