Odebolt, IA
How exposed is Odebolt to wildfire?
Odebolt's 739 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 Odebolt at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Odebolt's buildings actually sit
Only 21.7% of Odebolt's 739 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 78.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Odebolt ranks
There's little gap between Odebolt's 8th national percentile and its 16th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Odebolt ranks 29,150 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,226 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 859 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Odebolt and the insurance market
Odebolt's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Odebolt's 78.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Odebolt's 29,150-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Odebolt, see the exposure-zones guide.