New Whiteland, IN
How exposed is New Whiteland to wildfire?
New Whiteland's 2,440 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Whiteland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
New Whiteland's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93.2% of New Whiteland's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
New Whiteland against the rest of the country
Compare New Whiteland's two percentiles: 28th within Indiana, only 4th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Whiteland ranks 30,318 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,421 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 699 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Whiteland
New Whiteland's low wildfire rating (4th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 93.2% of New Whiteland 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.
More on how this number was built
New Whiteland's 4th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Whiteland, see the exposure-zones guide.