Jesup, IA
Jesup wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jesup lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,390 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 Jesup at the 10th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Jesup's buildings actually sit
Jesup rates 91.2% Minimal exposure against just 8.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,390 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Jesup ranks
Jesup scores 11th nationally and 21st 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, Jesup ranks 28,011 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,671 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 806 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jesup
At the 11th national percentile, Jesup 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 Jesup
Even with 91.2% of Jesup outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Jesup's 11th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Jesup, see the exposure-zones guide.