Oyens, IA
How exposed is Oyens to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Oyens lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 87 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oyens at the 8th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 92% of Oyens's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 8.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Oyens ranks
There's little gap between Oyens's 10th national percentile and its 19th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oyens ranks 28,390 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,614 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 819 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Oyens and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Oyens rates low 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
Even with 92% of Oyens outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Oyens's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oyens's 28,390-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oyens's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.