Speedway, IN
Speedway, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Speedway at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 5,485 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Speedway at the 11th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Speedway's buildings actually sit
98.6% of Speedway's 5,485 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,485 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Speedway against the rest of the country
Compare Speedway's two percentiles: 50th within Indiana, only 8th nationally — a gap of 42 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Speedway ranks 28,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 483 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Speedway
At the 8th national percentile, Speedway 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 Speedway
Even with 98.6% of Speedway 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.
Where Speedway's figures come from
Speedway's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Speedway's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.