Blakesburg, IA
Blakesburg, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Blakesburg's 263 buildings earn a 72nd-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, Blakesburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 74th percentile nationally.
Blakesburg's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Blakesburg's buildings (77.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Blakesburg compares
Blakesburg's 96th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 72nd 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, Blakesburg ranks 8,823 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,724 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 46 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blakesburg
Blakesburg's high rating (72nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Blakesburg
Because 77.2% of Blakesburg's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Blakesburg's figures come from
Blakesburg's 72nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blakesburg's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.