Maurice, IA
Maurice wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Maurice lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 201 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Maurice's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 62.7% of Maurice's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 37.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Maurice ranks
There's little gap between Maurice's 12th national percentile and its 21st percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maurice ranks 27,828 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,798 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 802 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Maurice's low wildfire rating (12th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Maurice's 62.7% 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 201 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maurice. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Maurice, see the exposure-zones guide.