Orange City, IA
Orange City, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Orange City at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,456 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 Orange City at the 23rd percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Orange City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 82.1% of Orange City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 17.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Orange City ranks
Orange City scores 25th nationally and 38th 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, Orange City ranks 23,727 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,380 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 630 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orange City
Orange City's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Orange City 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orange City's 23,727-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Orange City, see the exposure-zones guide.