Maples, IN
Maples, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Maples sits at the 1st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 98 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Maples's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Maples's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 86.7% of Maples's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Maples ranks
There's little gap between Maples's 1st national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maples ranks 31,239 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,119 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 902 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Maples
At the 1st national percentile, Maples rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 86.7% of Maples 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 98 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maples. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Maples, see the exposure-zones guide.