Syracuse, IN
How exposed is Syracuse to wildfire?
USFS scores Syracuse at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,059 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Syracuse at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Syracuse's buildings actually sit
Only 7.3% of Syracuse's 2,059 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Syracuse compares
Within Indiana, Syracuse ranks higher (37th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Syracuse ranks 29,846 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,315 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 608 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Syracuse
Syracuse's low rating (5th 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
Syracuse's 92.7% 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.
Where Syracuse's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,059 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Syracuse. The exposure-zones guide covers what Syracuse's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.