Mount Auburn, IN
How exposed is Mount Auburn to wildfire?
Mount Auburn sits at the 7th 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 99 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Auburn at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Auburn's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 62.6% of Mount Auburn's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 37.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Mount Auburn against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Mount Auburn ranks higher (45th percentile) than it does nationally (7th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Auburn ranks 29,373 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,074 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 532 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Mount Auburn and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Mount Auburn 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 62.6% of Mount Auburn 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.
Where Mount Auburn's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 99 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Auburn. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Auburn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.