Orient, IA
How exposed is Orient to wildfire?
USFS scores Orient at the 45th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 291 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Orient's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 45th percentile nationally.
Orient's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 28.9% of Orient's 291 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 71.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Orient against the rest of the country
Within Iowa, Orient ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (45th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orient ranks 17,298 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,878 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 393 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orient
At the 45th national percentile, Orient rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 71.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Orient 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 Orient's 17,298-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Orient, see the exposure-zones guide.