North Manchester, IN
North Manchester wildfire risk explained
North Manchester's 2,602 buildings earn a 3rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Manchester at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
78.6% of North Manchester's 2,602 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 21.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
North Manchester against the rest of the country
Compare North Manchester's two percentiles: 20th within Indiana, only 3rd nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Manchester ranks 30,633 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,092 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 774 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
North Manchester and the insurance market
North Manchester's low rating (3rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in North Manchester
Even with 78.6% of North Manchester 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Manchester's 30,633-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Manchester, see the exposure-zones guide.