Perry, IA
Perry, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Perry at the 21st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,475 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Perry at the 21st national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Perry's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86.3% of Perry's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Perry compares
Perry's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (34th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (21st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perry ranks 24,896 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,801 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 673 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Perry
Perry's moderate rating (21st 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 Perry
Perry's 86.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Perry's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,475 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Perry. The exposure-zones guide covers what Perry's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.