New Haven, IN
New Haven wildfire risk explained
New Haven sits at the 3rd 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 7,969 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Haven at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
New Haven's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of New Haven's buildings (94.1% of 7,969) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 7,969 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How New Haven compares
New Haven's 21st-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 3rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Haven ranks 30,607 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,123 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 769 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
New Haven and the insurance market
At the 3rd national percentile, New Haven 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 New Haven
New Haven's 94.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Haven's 30,607-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Haven, see the exposure-zones guide.