Woodlawn Heights, IN
How exposed is Woodlawn Heights to wildfire?
Woodlawn Heights sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 36 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Woodlawn Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Woodlawn Heights: 100% of its 36 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Woodlawn Heights against the rest of the country
Compare Woodlawn Heights's two percentiles: 49th within Indiana, only 8th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodlawn Heights ranks 28,964 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,252 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 494 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodlawn Heights
At the 8th national percentile, Woodlawn Heights rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 100% of Woodlawn Heights in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodlawn Heights's 28,964-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Woodlawn Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.