Rossie, IA
How exposed is Rossie to wildfire?
USFS scores Rossie at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 68 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rossie at the 6th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Rossie's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 75% of Rossie's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 25% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Rossie against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Rossie's 7th national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rossie ranks 29,278 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,352 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 863 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Rossie and the insurance market
Rossie's low wildfire rating (7th 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
With 75% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Rossie 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rossie's 29,278-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rossie, see the exposure-zones guide.