Rodney, IA
Rodney wildfire risk explained
Rodney's 94 buildings earn a 84th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rodney at the 84th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Rodney's buildings actually sit
Only 26.6% of Rodney's 94 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 73.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Rodney compares
Compare Rodney's two percentiles: 100th within Iowa, only 84th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rodney ranks 4,981 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,307 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 5 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Rodney and the insurance market
Rodney's very high rating (84th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Rodney's 73.4% 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
Rodney's 84th-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 Rodney, see the exposure-zones guide.