Mooresville, IN
Mooresville wildfire risk explained
Mooresville sits at the 21st 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 4,470 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mooresville at the 22nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mooresville's building exposure, zone by zone
Mooresville rates 80.6% Minimal exposure against just 9.6% Direct and 9.8% Indirect — of 4,470 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Mooresville against the rest of the country
Compare Mooresville's two percentiles: 83rd within Indiana, only 21st nationally — a gap of 62 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mooresville ranks 24,927 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,818 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 167 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mooresville
Mooresville's moderate rating (21st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mooresville
With 80.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mooresville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mooresville's 24,927-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mooresville, see the exposure-zones guide.