Dumont, IA
Dumont, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Dumont sits at the 38th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 465 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dumont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 16.3% of Dumont's 465 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 83.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Dumont ranks
Compare Dumont's two percentiles: 54th within Iowa, only 38th nationally — a gap of 15 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dumont ranks 19,407 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,977 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 473 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Dumont and the insurance market
At the 38th national percentile, Dumont rates moderate 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 Dumont
Dumont's 83.7% 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 Dumont's 19,407-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dumont, see the exposure-zones guide.