Scott, IN
How exposed is Scott to wildfire?
Scott's 118 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Scott's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Scott's building exposure, zone by zone
118 buildings are counted in Scott, and 59.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Scott compares
Compare Scott's two percentiles: 46th within Indiana, only 7th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Scott ranks 29,277 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,237 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 522 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Scott and the insurance market
Scott's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Scott
With 59.3% of Scott 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Scott's 29,277-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Scott, see the exposure-zones guide.