Brooklyn, IA
Brooklyn, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brooklyn sits at the 48th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 923 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brooklyn at the 50th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brooklyn's buildings actually sit
Only 13.3% of Brooklyn's 923 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Brooklyn against the rest of the country
Within Iowa, Brooklyn ranks higher (67th percentile) than it does nationally (48th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brooklyn ranks 16,252 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,529 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 335 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brooklyn
Brooklyn's elevated wildfire rating (48th 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 Brooklyn
With 86.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brooklyn gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Brooklyn's 48th-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 Brooklyn, see the exposure-zones guide.