DeWitt, IA
DeWitt wildfire risk explained
USFS scores DeWitt at the 38th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,596 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 DeWitt at the 39th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Where DeWitt's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 89.8% of DeWitt's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.4% Direct and 0.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How DeWitt compares
Within Iowa, DeWitt ranks higher (53rd percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, DeWitt ranks 19,470 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,111 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 475 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
DeWitt and the insurance market
DeWitt's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
DeWitt's 89.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind DeWitt's 19,470-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond DeWitt, see the exposure-zones guide.