Lynnville, IN
Lynnville wildfire risk explained
Lynnville's 572 buildings earn a 34th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lynnville at the 36th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 72.7% of Lynnville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 20.6% Indirect share and far above its 6.6% Minimal share — a profile where 416 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Lynnville against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Lynnville ranks higher (94th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lynnville ranks 20,730 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,213 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 57 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Lynnville and the insurance market
Lynnville's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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 Lynnville
With 72.7% of Lynnville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lynnville's 20,730-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lynnville, see the exposure-zones guide.