Wilkinson, IN
Wilkinson, IN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wilkinson at the 3rd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 299 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wilkinson at the 2nd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Where Wilkinson's buildings actually sit
Most of Wilkinson's buildings (83.3% of 299) 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 Wilkinson compares
Within Indiana, Wilkinson ranks higher (18th 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, Wilkinson ranks 30,733 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,648 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 796 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Wilkinson's low rating (3rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Wilkinson's 83.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wilkinson's 30,733-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wilkinson, see the exposure-zones guide.