Upland, IN
Upland wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Upland at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,160 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Upland at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Upland's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 33.6% of Upland's 1,160 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 66.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Upland ranks
Upland's 44th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 6th 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, Upland ranks 29,500 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,888 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 546 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Upland and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Upland 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 Upland
Even with 66.4% of Upland 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,160 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Upland. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Upland, see the exposure-zones guide.