Maysville, IA
Maysville, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Maysville's 125 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Maysville at the 19th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Maysville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 87.2% of Maysville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Maysville compares
There's little gap between Maysville's 19th national percentile and its 30th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maysville ranks 25,683 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,935 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 711 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Maysville and the insurance market
Maysville's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 87.2% of Maysville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Maysville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 125 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maysville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Maysville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.