Peru, IN
Peru, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Peru sits at the 6th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 7,307 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Peru at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 96.6% of Peru's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 7,307 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Peru compares
Peru's 39th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 6th 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, Peru ranks 29,748 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,344 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 589 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Peru
At the 6th national percentile, Peru rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Peru
With 96.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Peru gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,307 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Peru. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Peru, see the exposure-zones guide.