Shipshewana, IN
How exposed is Shipshewana to wildfire?
Shipshewana's 687 buildings earn a 9th-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, Shipshewana's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
687 buildings are counted in Shipshewana, and 78.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 19.8% in Direct exposure or the 1.6% rated Minimal.
Shipshewana against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Shipshewana ranks higher (53rd percentile) than it does nationally (9th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shipshewana ranks 28,707 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,795 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 459 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shipshewana
At the 9th national percentile, Shipshewana rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Shipshewana
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Shipshewana (78.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Shipshewana's 28,707-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Shipshewana, see the exposure-zones guide.