Aurelia, IA
Aurelia, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Aurelia at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 644 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aurelia at the 18th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Aurelia's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 79.2% of Aurelia's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 20.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Aurelia ranks
There's little gap between Aurelia's 20th national percentile and its 33rd percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aurelia ranks 25,238 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,273 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 686 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aurelia
Aurelia's low wildfire rating (20th 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 Aurelia
Even with 79.2% of Aurelia outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Aurelia's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 644 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Aurelia. The exposure-zones guide covers what Aurelia's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.