Centralia, IA
Centralia, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Centralia's 106 buildings earn a 21st-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Centralia at the 22nd percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Centralia's building exposure, zone by zone
60.4% of Centralia's 106 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 39.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Centralia compares
There's little gap between Centralia's 21st national percentile and its 34th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Centralia ranks 24,801 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,768 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 666 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Centralia and the insurance market
Centralia's moderate rating (21st 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 Centralia
Because 60.4% of Centralia'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 106 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Centralia. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Centralia, see the exposure-zones guide.