Miles, IA
Miles, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Miles at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 350 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Miles at the 26th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Miles's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 5.4% of Miles's 350 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Miles ranks
Miles's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (41st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (26th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Miles ranks 23,251 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,307 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 605 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Miles and the insurance market
Miles's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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
Miles's 94.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Miles's 23,251-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Miles, see the exposure-zones guide.