Walkerton, IN
Walkerton, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Walkerton at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,050 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walkerton at the 20th national percentile — 1 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
1,050 buildings are counted in Walkerton, and 81.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 18.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Walkerton against the rest of the country
Compare Walkerton's two percentiles: 78th within Indiana, only 19th nationally — a gap of 58 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walkerton ranks 25,399 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,594 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 217 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
Walkerton's low wildfire rating (19th 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 Walkerton
Because 81.2% of Walkerton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Walkerton's 19th-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 Walkerton, see the exposure-zones guide.