Lynnville, IA
Lynnville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lynnville at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 309 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lynnville at the 48th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Lynnville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 65.4% of Lynnville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 34.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Lynnville against the rest of the country
Lynnville's 64th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 47th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lynnville ranks 16,792 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 372 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Lynnville and the insurance market
Lynnville's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 65.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lynnville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lynnville's 16,792-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lynnville, see the exposure-zones guide.