Jeffersonville, IN
How exposed is Jeffersonville to wildfire?
USFS scores Jeffersonville at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 22,025 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jeffersonville at the 18th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
78.8% of Jeffersonville's 22,025 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 19.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 22,025 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Jeffersonville ranks
Within Indiana, Jeffersonville ranks higher (70th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jeffersonville ranks 26,468 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 619 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 292 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Jeffersonville and the insurance market
Jeffersonville's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Jeffersonville
Jeffersonville's 78.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jeffersonville's 26,468-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Jeffersonville, see the exposure-zones guide.