Aspinwall, IA
Aspinwall, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Aspinwall's 55 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Aspinwall at the 16th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 89.1% of Aspinwall's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Aspinwall compares
Aspinwall's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (29th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (18th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aspinwall ranks 25,904 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,784 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 722 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Aspinwall's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 89.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Aspinwall gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aspinwall's 25,904-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Aspinwall, see the exposure-zones guide.