North Washington, IA
North Washington, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores North Washington at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 105 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 North Washington at the 13th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
North Washington's building exposure, zone by zone
North Washington rates 51.4% Minimal exposure against just 48.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 105 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How North Washington compares
North Washington scores 15th nationally and 25th within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Washington ranks 26,882 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,800 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 767 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
At the 15th national percentile, North Washington rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in North Washington
With 51.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, North Washington 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 105 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Washington. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Washington, see the exposure-zones guide.