Westville, IN
Westville wildfire risk explained
Westville's 1,373 buildings earn a 23rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Westville at the 23rd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
89% of Westville's 1,373 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 11% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Westville against the rest of the country
Compare Westville's two percentiles: 88th within Indiana, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 66 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westville ranks 24,387 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,739 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 116 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Westville and the insurance market
Westville's moderate rating (23rd 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 Westville
With 89% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Westville 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
Westville's 23rd-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 Westville, see the exposure-zones guide.