Dallas Center, IA
Dallas Center wildfire risk explained
Dallas Center's 1,138 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dallas Center at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Dallas Center rates 77.8% Minimal exposure against just 20.2% Direct and 2% Indirect — of 1,138 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Dallas Center against the rest of the country
Dallas Center scores 19th nationally and 32nd 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, Dallas Center ranks 25,431 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,026 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 698 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dallas Center
Dallas Center's low wildfire rating (19th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 77.8% of Dallas Center 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.
Where Dallas Center's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,138 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dallas Center. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dallas Center's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.