Peosta, IA
How exposed is Peosta to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Peosta at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 700 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Peosta at the 20th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
700 buildings are counted in Peosta, and 64.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17.6% in Direct exposure or the 18% rated Minimal.
How Peosta compares
Peosta's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (31st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peosta ranks 25,616 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,656 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 705 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Peosta and the insurance market
Peosta's low rating (19th 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 Peosta
Because 64.4% of Peosta'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.
More on how this number was built
Peosta's 19th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Peosta, see the exposure-zones guide.