Nodaway, IA
How exposed is Nodaway to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Nodaway lands at the 62nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 134 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nodaway at the 63rd percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Nodaway's building exposure, zone by zone
61.9% of Nodaway's 134 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 38.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Nodaway compares
Compare Nodaway's two percentiles: 86th within Iowa, only 62nd nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nodaway ranks 11,911 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,540 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 143 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Nodaway's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Nodaway's 61.9% 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
Nodaway's 62nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Nodaway, see the exposure-zones guide.