Pocahontas, IA
Pocahontas, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pocahontas sits at the 3rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,338 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pocahontas at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pocahontas's buildings actually sit
Only 5.3% of Pocahontas's 1,338 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Pocahontas against the rest of the country
Pocahontas's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (5th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (3rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pocahontas ranks 30,638 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,885 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 967 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 3rd national percentile, Pocahontas 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
With 94.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pocahontas gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Pocahontas's 3rd-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 Pocahontas, see the exposure-zones guide.