Whiting, IN
How exposed is Whiting to wildfire?
USFS scores Whiting at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 3,130 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Whiting at the 45th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Whiting's building exposure, zone by zone
Whiting rates 100% Minimal exposure against just 0% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 3,130 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Whiting compares
Whiting's 96th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 46th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Whiting ranks 17,077 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,253 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 36 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whiting
Whiting's elevated wildfire rating (46th 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.
Hardening a home in Whiting
With 100% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Whiting 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,130 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Whiting. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Whiting, see the exposure-zones guide.