Emerson, IA
Emerson, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Emerson's 325 buildings earn a 34th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Emerson at the 32nd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Emerson's building exposure, zone by zone
Emerson rates 87.1% Minimal exposure against just 12.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 325 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Emerson compares
Emerson's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (48th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Emerson ranks 20,918 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,954 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 524 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Emerson
Emerson's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Emerson
With 87.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Emerson gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Emerson's 20,918-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Emerson, see the exposure-zones guide.