Cantril, IA
Cantril, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cantril at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 226 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cantril at the 70th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 54% of Cantril's 226 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 46% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Cantril ranks
Within Iowa, Cantril ranks higher (93rd percentile) than it does nationally (69th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cantril ranks 9,860 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,911 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 73 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
At the 69th percentile nationally, Cantril carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 54% of Cantril's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cantril's 9,860-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cantril, see the exposure-zones guide.