Liberty Mills, IN
Liberty Mills wildfire risk explained
Liberty Mills's 194 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Liberty Mills at the 3rd percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Liberty Mills's 194 counted buildings, 53.1% carry Direct exposure and only 46.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Liberty Mills compares
Liberty Mills's 26th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 4th 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, Liberty Mills ranks 30,378 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,068 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 715 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Liberty Mills
Liberty Mills's low wildfire rating (4th 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 Liberty Mills
Because Direct exposure dominates in Liberty Mills (53.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Liberty Mills'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 direct exposure implies beyond Liberty Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.