Mount Auburn, IA
Mount Auburn, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mount Auburn's 141 buildings earn a 8th-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 Mount Auburn at the 8th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Auburn's buildings actually sit
Only 17% of Mount Auburn's 141 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 83% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Mount Auburn against the rest of the country
Mount Auburn's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Auburn ranks 28,965 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,248 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 849 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Mount Auburn and the insurance market
At the 8th national percentile, Mount Auburn rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 83% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mount Auburn gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mount Auburn's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 141 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Auburn. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Auburn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.