Iowa Falls, IA
How exposed is Iowa Falls to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Iowa Falls at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,948 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Iowa Falls at the 29th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Iowa Falls's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 10.6% of Iowa Falls's 2,948 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Iowa Falls compares
Iowa Falls scores 30th nationally and 45th within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Iowa Falls ranks 22,182 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,515 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 565 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Iowa Falls and the insurance market
Iowa Falls's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Iowa Falls's 89.5% 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 Iowa Falls's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Iowa Falls's 22,182-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Iowa Falls's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.