Lamont, IA
Lamont wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lamont lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 339 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 Lamont at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Where Lamont's buildings actually sit
77% of Lamont's 339 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 23% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Lamont compares
Lamont's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lamont ranks 28,643 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,592 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 831 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lamont
Lamont's low wildfire rating (9th 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
Lamont's 77% 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 339 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lamont. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lamont, see the exposure-zones guide.