Tecumseh, IN
How exposed is Tecumseh to wildfire?
Tecumseh sits at the 20th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 426 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tecumseh at the 21st percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Tecumseh's building exposure, zone by zone
426 buildings are counted in Tecumseh, and 92.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Tecumseh compares
Compare Tecumseh's two percentiles: 79th within Indiana, only 20th nationally — a gap of 59 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tecumseh ranks 25,334 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,730 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 207 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tecumseh
Tecumseh's low rating (20th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Tecumseh
With 92.5% of Tecumseh 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.
Where Tecumseh's figures come from
Tecumseh's 20th-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 Tecumseh's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.