Fenton, IA
How exposed is Fenton to wildfire?
Fenton sits at the 6th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 260 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fenton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Fenton rates 85.8% Minimal exposure against just 14.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 260 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Fenton compares
Fenton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (14th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (6th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fenton ranks 29,501 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,822 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 874 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Fenton and the insurance market
Fenton's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Fenton's 85.8% 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 Fenton's 29,501-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fenton, see the exposure-zones guide.