Camanche, IA
Camanche wildfire risk explained
Camanche sits at the 46th 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 2,667 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Camanche at the 47th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 11.3% of Camanche's 2,667 buildings carry Direct exposure and 13.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 75% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Camanche compares
Compare Camanche's two percentiles: 63rd within Iowa, only 46th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Camanche ranks 16,980 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,985 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 380 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Camanche and the insurance market
At the 46th national percentile, Camanche rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 75% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Camanche 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,667 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Camanche. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Camanche, see the exposure-zones guide.