Jasper, IN
How exposed is Jasper to wildfire?
Jasper sits at the 18th 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 7,223 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jasper at the 19th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 32.3% of Jasper's 7,223 buildings carry Direct exposure and 16.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 51.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,223 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Jasper compares
Compare Jasper's two percentiles: 73rd within Indiana, only 18th nationally — a gap of 56 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jasper ranks 25,998 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,372 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 257 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jasper
Jasper's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Jasper's 51.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Jasper's 18th-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 Jasper, see the exposure-zones guide.