Lake Park, IA
Lake Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lake Park at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 847 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lake Park at the 29th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Where Lake Park's buildings actually sit
68.2% of Lake Park's 847 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 31.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Lake Park ranks
Lake Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (34th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Park ranks 20,668 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,190 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 519 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Lake Park and the insurance market
Lake Park's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Hardening a home in Lake Park
With 68.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lake Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Lake Park's 34th-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 Lake Park, see the exposure-zones guide.