Wanatah, IN
How exposed is Wanatah to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wanatah lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 689 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wanatah at the 2nd 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 8% of Wanatah's 689 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Wanatah ranks
There's little gap between Wanatah's 2nd national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Indiana, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wanatah ranks 30,797 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,766 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 810 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Wanatah and the insurance market
Wanatah's low wildfire rating (2nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wanatah's 92% 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.
More on how this number was built
Wanatah's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wanatah, see the exposure-zones guide.