Perkinsville, IN
Perkinsville, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Perkinsville at the 4th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 106 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Perkinsville at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Perkinsville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 70.8% of Perkinsville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Perkinsville compares
Compare Perkinsville's two percentiles: 25th within Indiana, only 4th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perkinsville ranks 30,410 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,766 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 723 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
At the 4th national percentile, Perkinsville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 70.8% of Perkinsville 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
Perkinsville'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 Perkinsville, see the exposure-zones guide.