Knox, IN
Knox, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Knox lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,957 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 Knox at the 13th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Knox's building exposure, zone by zone
Knox rates 83.3% Minimal exposure against just 16.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,957 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Knox against the rest of the country
Knox's 65th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 14th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Knox ranks 27,225 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,600 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 338 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Knox and the insurance market
Knox's low wildfire rating (14th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Knox
With 83.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Knox gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Knox's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Knox's 27,225-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Knox's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.