Cylinder, IA
How exposed is Cylinder to wildfire?
Cylinder sits at the 18th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 91 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cylinder's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 83.5% of Cylinder's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Cylinder compares
Cylinder scores 18th nationally and 30th within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cylinder ranks 25,741 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,445 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 714 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Cylinder and the insurance market
At the 18th national percentile, Cylinder rates low 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 Cylinder
Cylinder's 83.5% 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
Cylinder's 18th-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 Cylinder, see the exposure-zones guide.