Crescent, IA
Crescent, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Crescent's 384 buildings earn a 74th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crescent at the 73rd percentile, close to its 74th-percentile risk score.
Crescent's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Crescent's 384 counted buildings, 55% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Crescent against the rest of the country
Compare Crescent's two percentiles: 97th within Iowa, only 74th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crescent ranks 8,094 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,542 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 28 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Crescent and the insurance market
Crescent's high rating (74th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Crescent
Crescent's 55% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Crescent's figures come from
Crescent's 74th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Crescent's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.