Waynetown, IN
Waynetown wildfire risk explained
Waynetown's 588 buildings earn a 3rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Waynetown at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Where Waynetown's buildings actually sit
Most of Waynetown's buildings (80.6% of 588) 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.
Waynetown against the rest of the country
Within Indiana, Waynetown ranks higher (22nd percentile) than it does nationally (3rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Waynetown ranks 30,546 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,990 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 757 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Waynetown and the insurance market
At the 3rd national percentile, Waynetown rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Waynetown's 80.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 588 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Waynetown. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Waynetown, see the exposure-zones guide.