Anamosa, IA
Anamosa, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Anamosa at the 54th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,109 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Anamosa at the 55th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Anamosa's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 40% of Anamosa's 2,109 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 21% Direct and 39.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Anamosa compares
Anamosa's 74th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 54th 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, Anamosa ranks 14,583 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,169 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 268 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Anamosa and the insurance market
Anamosa's elevated wildfire rating (54th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Anamosa
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Anamosa (40% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Anamosa's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Anamosa's 14,583-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Anamosa's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.