Maynard, IA
Maynard wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Maynard at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 394 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Maynard at the 4th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Maynard's buildings actually sit
Only 20.6% of Maynard's 394 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 79.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Maynard compares
Maynard scores 4th nationally and 9th 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, Maynard ranks 30,135 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,329 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 920 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
Maynard's low wildfire rating (4th 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
Maynard's 79.4% 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
Maynard's 4th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Maynard, see the exposure-zones guide.