Buckeye, IA
Buckeye, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Buckeye at the 20th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 127 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Buckeye at the 18th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
86.6% of Buckeye's 127 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Buckeye against the rest of the country
Buckeye's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (32nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Buckeye ranks 25,366 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,850 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 695 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
Buckeye's low rating (20th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Buckeye
Buckeye's 86.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 127 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Buckeye. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Buckeye, see the exposure-zones guide.