Drakesville, IA
How exposed is Drakesville to wildfire?
USFS scores Drakesville at the 72nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 180 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Drakesville at the 74th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Drakesville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 57.2% of Drakesville's 180 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Drakesville compares
Within Iowa, Drakesville ranks higher (95th percentile) than it does nationally (72nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Drakesville ranks 8,917 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,622 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 50 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Drakesville and the insurance market
Drakesville's high rating (72nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 57.2% of Drakesville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Drakesville's 8,917-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Drakesville, see the exposure-zones guide.