Mount Summit, IN
Mount Summit, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mount Summit at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 253 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mount Summit at the 9th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Mount Summit's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 75.9% of Mount Summit's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 24.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Mount Summit compares
Compare Mount Summit's two percentiles: 55th within Indiana, only 10th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Summit ranks 28,517 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,042 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 441 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Summit
At the 10th national percentile, Mount Summit rates low 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 Mount Summit
With 75.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mount Summit gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mount Summit's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Summit's 28,517-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Summit's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.