Iona, MN
Iona wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Iona at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 184 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Iona at the 4th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Iona's buildings (67.4% of 184) 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.
Iona against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Iona's 6th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Iona ranks 29,787 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,464 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 837 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Iona and the insurance market
Iona'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.
Hardening a home in Iona
Iona's 67.4% 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 184 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Iona. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Iona, see the exposure-zones guide.