Milltown, IN
Milltown wildfire risk explained
Milltown sits at the 28th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 562 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Milltown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Milltown's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Milltown's 562 counted buildings, 79.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Milltown compares
Within Indiana, Milltown ranks higher (93rd percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milltown ranks 22,684 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,372 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 68 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Milltown and the insurance market
At the 28th national percentile, Milltown rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Milltown
With 79.9% of Milltown 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 Milltown's 22,684-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Milltown, see the exposure-zones guide.