Jerome, IN
How exposed is Jerome to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jerome lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 66 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jerome at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Jerome's building exposure, zone by zone
66 buildings are counted in Jerome, and 65.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 34.9% rated Minimal.
How Jerome compares
There's little gap between Jerome's 2nd national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jerome ranks 30,890 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,414 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 830 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jerome
At the 2nd national percentile, Jerome 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
With 65.2% of Jerome 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 66 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jerome. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jerome, see the exposure-zones guide.