Iola, KS
Iola, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Iola's 3,426 buildings earn a 48th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Iola at the 48th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Iola's building exposure, zone by zone
Iola rates 88.6% Minimal exposure against just 11.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 3,426 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Iola compares
Inside Kansas, Iola sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 48th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Iola ranks 16,254 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,877 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 519 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Iola and the insurance market
Iola's elevated rating (48th 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
Iola's 88.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,426 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Iola. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Iola, see the exposure-zones guide.