Goldfield, IA
How exposed is Goldfield to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Goldfield lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 505 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Goldfield at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Goldfield's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Goldfield's buildings (82.2% of 505) 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.
Where Goldfield ranks
There's little gap between Goldfield's 5th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Goldfield ranks 29,976 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,253 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 905 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 5th national percentile, Goldfield 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 Goldfield
Goldfield's 82.2% 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 Goldfield's 29,976-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Goldfield, see the exposure-zones guide.