Saline City, IN
Saline City, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Saline City sits at the 4th 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 73 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Saline City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
Where Saline City's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 76.7% of Saline City's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 23.3% Minimal share — a profile where 56 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Saline City against the rest of the country
Compare Saline City's two percentiles: 26th within Indiana, only 4th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Saline City ranks 30,381 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,167 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 718 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Saline City
Saline City's low wildfire rating (4th 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.
Hardening a home in Saline City
With 76.7% of Saline City in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Saline City'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 direct exposure implies beyond Saline City, see the exposure-zones guide.