Blockton, IA
Blockton wildfire risk explained
Blockton's 185 buildings earn a 66th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blockton at the 67th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Blockton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 56.2% of Blockton's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 7% Indirect share and far above its 36.8% Minimal share — a profile where 104 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Blockton compares
Blockton's 90th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 66th 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, Blockton ranks 10,585 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,415 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 100 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
Blockton's 66th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Blockton
With 56.2% of Blockton in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blockton's 10,585-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blockton, see the exposure-zones guide.