Vincennes, IN
How exposed is Vincennes to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Vincennes lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 8,285 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Vincennes at the 9th national percentile — 0 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
Only 13.8% of Vincennes's 8,285 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,285 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Vincennes ranks
Within Indiana, Vincennes ranks higher (52nd percentile) than it does nationally (9th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vincennes ranks 28,768 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,014 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 469 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Vincennes's low wildfire rating (9th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Vincennes's 86.3% 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 Vincennes's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,285 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Vincennes. The exposure-zones guide covers what Vincennes's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.