Kanawha, IA
Kanawha, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kanawha lands at the 0th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 447 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 Kanawha at the 0th percentile, close to its 0th-percentile risk score.
Where Kanawha's buildings actually sit
Most of Kanawha's buildings (86.6% of 447) 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.
How Kanawha compares
There's little gap between Kanawha's 0th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kanawha ranks 31,401 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,330 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 1,016 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
Kanawha's low wildfire rating (0th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Kanawha's 86.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kanawha's 31,401-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kanawha, see the exposure-zones guide.