Clinton, IA
Clinton, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Clinton at the 43rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 14,021 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 Clinton at the 44th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Clinton's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Clinton's buildings (67% of 14,021) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 14,021 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Clinton ranks
Within Iowa, Clinton ranks higher (59th percentile) than it does nationally (43rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clinton ranks 18,082 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,069 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 421 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clinton
Clinton's elevated rating (43rd 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 Clinton
Clinton's 67% 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
Clinton's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clinton, see the exposure-zones guide.