Nineveh, IN
How exposed is Nineveh to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Nineveh at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 386 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 Nineveh at the 38th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Where Nineveh's buildings actually sit
386 buildings are counted in Nineveh, and 80.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Nineveh compares
Nineveh's 95th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 36th 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, Nineveh ranks 20,258 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,492 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 48 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nineveh
At the 36th national percentile, Nineveh rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 80.6% of Nineveh in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nineveh's 20,258-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nineveh, see the exposure-zones guide.