Amana, IA
Amana, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Amana at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 376 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Amana at the 71st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Amana's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Amana (81.9% of 376 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 14.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Amana ranks
Amana's 94th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 71st 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, Amana ranks 9,296 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,738 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 61 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Amana and the insurance market
Amana's 71st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 81.9% of Amana's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Amana's 9,296-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Amana, see the exposure-zones guide.