Carroll, IA
Carroll, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Carroll's 4,833 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Carroll's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 31st percentile nationally.
Carroll's building exposure, zone by zone
92.7% of Carroll's 4,833 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 7.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Carroll compares
There's little gap between Carroll's 32nd national percentile and its 47th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Carroll ranks 21,522 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,533 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 544 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 32nd national percentile, Carroll rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Carroll
Even with 92.7% of Carroll 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 Carroll's 21,522-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Carroll, see the exposure-zones guide.