Numa, IA
Numa, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Numa's 81 buildings earn a 74th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Numa's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Numa's 81 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Numa against the rest of the country
Compare Numa's two percentiles: 97th within Iowa, only 74th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Numa ranks 8,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,840 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 32 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Numa
At the 74th percentile nationally, Numa carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Numa's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Numa's 74th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Numa, see the exposure-zones guide.