Miller, IA
How exposed is Miller to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Miller at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 88 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Miller at the 9th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Miller's buildings actually sit
Most of Miller's buildings (54.6% of 88) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Miller ranks
There's little gap between Miller's 13th national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Miller ranks 27,574 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,573 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 792 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Miller
Miller's low rating (13th 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
With 54.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Miller 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Miller's 27,574-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Miller, see the exposure-zones guide.