Loogootee, IN
Loogootee, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Loogootee at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,720 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Loogootee's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 24.9% of Loogootee's 1,720 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Loogootee against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Loogootee ranks higher (58th percentile) than it does nationally (11th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Loogootee ranks 28,108 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,340 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 404 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Loogootee and the insurance market
Loogootee's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Loogootee's 69.3% 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.
Where Loogootee's figures come from
Loogootee's 11th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Loogootee's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.