Roland, IA
Roland, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Roland lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 699 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Roland at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Roland's buildings (88.1% of 699) 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 Roland ranks
Roland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roland ranks 28,870 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,662 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 844 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 8th national percentile, Roland rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 88.1% of Roland 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 Roland's 28,870-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Roland, see the exposure-zones guide.