Taswell, IN
How exposed is Taswell to wildfire?
USFS scores Taswell at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 117 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Taswell at the 28th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Taswell's buildings actually sit
Of Taswell's 117 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Taswell against the rest of the country
Taswell's 92nd-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 26th 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, Taswell ranks 23,250 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,299 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 82 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Taswell and the insurance market
Taswell's moderate wildfire rating (26th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Taswell
With 100% of Taswell 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
Taswell's 26th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Taswell, see the exposure-zones guide.