Edgewood, IA
Edgewood, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Edgewood at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 542 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Edgewood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
Where Edgewood's buildings actually sit
Most of Edgewood's buildings (45.9% of 542) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Edgewood against the rest of the country
Edgewood scores 14th nationally and 24th 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, Edgewood ranks 27,100 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,680 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 774 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Edgewood and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Edgewood rates low 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 Edgewood
Even with 45.9% of Edgewood 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
Edgewood's 14th-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 Edgewood, see the exposure-zones guide.