Wildwood, IN
Wildwood, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wildwood lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 297 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wildwood at the 9th 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
Most of Wildwood's buildings (80.1% of 297) 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.
How Wildwood compares
Compare Wildwood's two percentiles: 53rd within Indiana, only 9th nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wildwood ranks 28,678 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,706 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 453 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wildwood
At the 9th national percentile, Wildwood 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 Wildwood
Even with 80.1% of Wildwood outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wildwood's 28,678-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wildwood, see the exposure-zones guide.