Leesburg, IN
Leesburg wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Leesburg at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 347 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Leesburg at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Leesburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 4% of Leesburg's 347 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 96% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Leesburg compares
Leesburg scores 1st nationally and 10th within Indiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leesburg ranks 31,105 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 872 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Leesburg
Leesburg's low wildfire rating (1st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 96% of Leesburg outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leesburg's 31,105-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.