Selma, IN
Selma wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Selma lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 496 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 Selma at the 7th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 68.4% of Selma's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 31.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Selma against the rest of the country
Selma's 44th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 6th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Selma ranks 29,499 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,422 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 545 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Selma
At the 6th national percentile, Selma rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Selma's 68.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Selma's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Selma, see the exposure-zones guide.