Wadesville, IN
How exposed is Wadesville to wildfire?
Wadesville sits at the 5th 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 342 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 Wadesville at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Wadesville's buildings (57.3% of 342) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Wadesville compares
Compare Wadesville's two percentiles: 35th within Indiana, only 5th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wadesville ranks 29,974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,511 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 630 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wadesville
Wadesville's low wildfire rating (5th 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 Wadesville
Even with 57.3% of Wadesville 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.
Where Wadesville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wadesville's 29,974-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wadesville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.