Greenfield, IA
How exposed is Greenfield to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Greenfield lands at the 52nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,353 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 Greenfield at the 53rd percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 9.5% of Greenfield's 1,353 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 90.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Greenfield ranks
Within Iowa, Greenfield ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (52nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenfield ranks 14,993 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,817 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 284 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 52nd national percentile, Greenfield rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Greenfield's 90.5% 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.
Where Greenfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenfield's 14,993-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Greenfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.