New Market, IA
New Market, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores New Market at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 328 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Market at the 62nd percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Where New Market's buildings actually sit
New Market rates 64.9% Minimal exposure against just 35.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 328 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
New Market against the rest of the country
New Market's 84th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 61st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Market ranks 12,315 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,872 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 160 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Market
New Market's 61st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in New Market
With 64.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, New Market gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where New Market's figures come from
New Market's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what New Market's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.