Brunsville, IA
How exposed is Brunsville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brunsville lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 107 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brunsville at the 14th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Where Brunsville's buildings actually sit
Most of Brunsville's buildings (61.7% of 107) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Brunsville ranks
There's little gap between Brunsville's 16th national percentile and its 27th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brunsville ranks 26,377 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,729 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 746 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Brunsville and the insurance market
Brunsville's low wildfire rating (16th 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 Brunsville
Even with 61.7% of Brunsville 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brunsville's 26,377-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brunsville, see the exposure-zones guide.