Donahue, IA
How exposed is Donahue to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Donahue at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 197 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Donahue's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 16.8% of Donahue's 197 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 83.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Donahue ranks
Donahue's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (26th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Donahue ranks 26,469 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,957 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 751 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Donahue's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 83.3% of Donahue 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.
More on how this number was built
Donahue's 16th-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 Donahue, see the exposure-zones guide.