Jonesboro, IN
Jonesboro wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jonesboro lands at the 4th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,019 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 Jonesboro at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Where Jonesboro's buildings actually sit
Most of Jonesboro's buildings (82.6% of 1,019) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Jonesboro against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Jonesboro ranks higher (29th percentile) than it does nationally (4th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jonesboro ranks 30,255 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,805 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 685 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Jonesboro and the insurance market
Jonesboro's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Jonesboro's 82.6% 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
Jonesboro's 4th-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 Jonesboro, see the exposure-zones guide.