Sandborn, IN
Sandborn wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sandborn lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 362 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sandborn at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
55% of Sandborn's 362 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 45% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Sandborn ranks
There's little gap between Sandborn's 1st national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sandborn ranks 31,307 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,015 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 927 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sandborn
Sandborn's low wildfire rating (1st 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 Sandborn
Sandborn's 55% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Sandborn's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sandborn's 31,307-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sandborn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.