Pottawattamie Park, IN
How exposed is Pottawattamie Park to wildfire?
Pottawattamie Park sits at the 38th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 133 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pottawattamie Park at the 39th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pottawattamie Park's buildings actually sit
Only 36.8% of Pottawattamie Park's 133 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 63.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Pottawattamie Park ranks
Within Indiana, Pottawattamie Park ranks higher (96th percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pottawattamie Park ranks 19,690 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,577 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 42 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
Pottawattamie Park's moderate wildfire rating (38th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 63.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pottawattamie Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Pottawattamie Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pottawattamie Park's 19,690-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pottawattamie Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.