Paris Crossing, IN
Paris Crossing, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Paris Crossing's 143 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Paris Crossing at the 26th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.3% of Paris Crossing's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 142 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Paris Crossing compares
Compare Paris Crossing's two percentiles: 90th within Indiana, only 24th nationally — a gap of 66 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Paris Crossing ranks 24,010 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,151 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 103 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Paris Crossing
Paris Crossing's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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
Paris Crossing's 99.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Paris Crossing's 24,010-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Paris Crossing, see the exposure-zones guide.