Lansing, IA
Lansing, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lansing at the 40th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 727 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lansing's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 42nd percentile nationally.
Lansing's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 63.7% of Lansing's 727 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 33.7% Direct and 2.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Lansing compares
Lansing scores 40th nationally and 55th 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, Lansing ranks 18,966 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,371 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 461 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Lansing and the insurance market
Lansing's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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
Because 63.7% of Lansing's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Lansing's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 727 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lansing. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lansing's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.