Yorktown, IN
Yorktown wildfire risk explained
Yorktown sits at the 5th 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 6,138 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Yorktown at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Yorktown's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 45.3% of Yorktown's 6,138 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 54.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 6,138 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Yorktown ranks
Yorktown's 36th-percentile standing inside Indiana outpaces its 5th 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, Yorktown ranks 29,947 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,824 by building count (1 is largest). Within Indiana alone, it ranks 625 of 967 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Indiana on its state page.
Yorktown and the insurance market
At the 5th national percentile, Yorktown 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 Yorktown
Yorktown's 54.7% 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.
Where Yorktown's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,138 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Yorktown. The exposure-zones guide covers what Yorktown's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.