Aredale, IA
How exposed is Aredale to wildfire?
USFS scores Aredale at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 105 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 Aredale at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Aredale rates 75.2% Minimal exposure against just 24.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 105 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Aredale compares
There's little gap between Aredale's 5th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aredale ranks 29,906 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,797 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 898 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aredale
Aredale's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Aredale
Aredale's 75.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aredale's 29,906-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Aredale, see the exposure-zones guide.