Anita, IA
Anita wildfire risk explained
Anita's 711 buildings earn a 69th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Anita's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Anita (69.5% of 711 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 30.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Anita against the rest of the country
Within Iowa, Anita ranks higher (93rd percentile) than it does nationally (69th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Anita ranks 9,896 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,547 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 75 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Anita
Anita's 69th-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.
Hardening a home in Anita
Anita's 69.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 711 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Anita. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Anita, see the exposure-zones guide.