Riceville, IA
Riceville, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Riceville at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 596 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Riceville at the 24th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Riceville's buildings actually sit
Most of Riceville's buildings (80.2% of 596) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Riceville ranks
Riceville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (37th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (24th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riceville ranks 24,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 643 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Riceville
Riceville's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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
Even with 80.2% of Riceville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riceville's 24,043-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Riceville, see the exposure-zones guide.