Blanchard, IA
How exposed is Blanchard to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blanchard at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 49 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blanchard at the 39th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Blanchard's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 42.9% of Blanchard's 49 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 57.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Blanchard ranks
Blanchard scores 40th nationally and 54th within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blanchard ranks 19,028 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,952 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 464 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blanchard
At the 40th national percentile, Blanchard rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Blanchard's 57.1% 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
Blanchard's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blanchard, see the exposure-zones guide.