Walton, IN
Walton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Walton at the 0th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 651 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Walton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 0th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 94.2% of Walton's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Walton against the rest of the country
Walton scores 0th nationally and 3rd within Indiana — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walton ranks 31,400 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,192 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 946 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Walton and the insurance market
Walton's low rating (0th 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 Walton
Even with 94.2% of Walton 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walton's 31,400-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Walton, see the exposure-zones guide.