Vevay, IN
How exposed is Vevay to wildfire?
Vevay's 1,025 buildings earn a 21st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Vevay at the 23rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,025 buildings are counted in Vevay, and 79.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 20.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Vevay against the rest of the country
Compare Vevay's two percentiles: 84th within Indiana, only 21st nationally — a gap of 62 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vevay ranks 24,799 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,755 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 160 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Vevay and the insurance market
Vevay's moderate rating (21st 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 Vevay
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Vevay (79.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Vevay's 21st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Vevay, see the exposure-zones guide.