Scircleville, IN
Scircleville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Scircleville lands at the 0th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 105 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Scircleville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 0th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Scircleville's buildings (72.4% of 105) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Scircleville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Scircleville's 0th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Scircleville ranks 31,495 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,796 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 965 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Scircleville and the insurance market
Scircleville's low rating (0th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 72.4% of Scircleville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scircleville's 31,495-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Scircleville, see the exposure-zones guide.