Warsaw, IN
Warsaw wildfire risk explained
Warsaw's 6,724 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Warsaw's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Where Warsaw's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86.4% of Warsaw's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,724 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Warsaw ranks
Within Indiana, Warsaw ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Warsaw ranks 29,561 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,576 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 557 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Warsaw and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Warsaw rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Warsaw
With 86.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Warsaw gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Warsaw's 29,561-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Warsaw, see the exposure-zones guide.