Manilla, IA
How exposed is Manilla to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Manilla at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 544 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Manilla at the 26th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Manilla's buildings actually sit
Manilla rates 91% Minimal exposure against just 9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 544 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Manilla compares
Manilla scores 28th nationally and 42nd 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, Manilla ranks 22,810 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,654 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 589 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Manilla
At the 28th national percentile, Manilla rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Manilla 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 544 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Manilla. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Manilla, see the exposure-zones guide.