Plymouth, IA
Plymouth, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Plymouth at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 277 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Plymouth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
Plymouth's building exposure, zone by zone
Plymouth rates 69.3% Minimal exposure against just 30.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 277 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Plymouth against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Plymouth's 13th national percentile and its 23rd percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plymouth ranks 27,323 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,292 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 781 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Plymouth and the insurance market
Plymouth's low wildfire rating (13th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Plymouth's 69.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Plymouth's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Plymouth, see the exposure-zones guide.