Evansdale, IA
Evansdale, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Evansdale at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,862 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Evansdale at the 42nd percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where Evansdale's buildings actually sit
Evansdale rates 82.6% Minimal exposure against just 17.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,862 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Evansdale compares
Evansdale's 56th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 41st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Evansdale ranks 18,714 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,645 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 447 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
At the 41st national percentile, Evansdale rates elevated 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 Evansdale
Even with 82.6% of Evansdale 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
Evansdale's 41st-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 Evansdale, see the exposure-zones guide.