Bouton, IA
How exposed is Bouton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bouton at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 99 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bouton at the 14th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bouton's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 14.1% of Bouton's 99 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 85.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Bouton against the rest of the country
Bouton scores 15th nationally and 25th 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, Bouton ranks 26,848 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,075 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 764 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Bouton and the insurance market
Bouton's low wildfire rating (15th 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 Bouton
Even with 85.9% of Bouton 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 Bouton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bouton's 26,848-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bouton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.