North Crows Nest, IN
How exposed is North Crows Nest to wildfire?
USFS scores North Crows Nest at the 11th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 22 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks North Crows Nest at the 13th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of North Crows Nest's 22 counted buildings, 95.5% carry Direct exposure and only 4.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. This is a small settlement by building count — 22 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Where North Crows Nest ranks
North Crows Nest's 60th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 11th 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, North Crows Nest ranks 27,918 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,441 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 390 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
North Crows Nest's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
North Crows Nest's 95.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where North Crows Nest's figures come from
North Crows Nest's 11th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. Small places like North Crows Nest (22 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.