Breda, IA
Breda, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Breda's 350 buildings earn a 3rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Breda's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
Breda's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 9.1% of Breda's 350 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 90.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Breda against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Breda's 3rd national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Breda ranks 30,547 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,306 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 960 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Breda and the insurance market
At the 3rd national percentile, Breda rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Breda
Breda's 90.9% 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.
Where Breda's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 350 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Breda. The exposure-zones guide covers what Breda's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.