Park View, IA
Park View wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Park View at the 45th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 784 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Park View at the 47th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Park View's buildings actually sit
784 buildings are counted in Park View, and 84.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 15.6% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Park View against the rest of the country
Park View's 61st-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 45th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Park View ranks 17,358 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,781 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 396 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Park View and the insurance market
Park View's elevated rating (45th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Park View
Because 84.4% of Park View's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Park View's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 784 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Park View. The exposure-zones guide covers what Park View's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.