Royal, IA
Royal, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Royal lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 276 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Royal's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Royal's building exposure, zone by zone
Royal rates 79% Minimal exposure against just 21% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 276 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Royal compares
There's little gap between Royal's 1st national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Royal ranks 31,174 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,318 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 1,008 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Royal
Royal's low rating (1st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Royal
Royal's 79% 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.
Where Royal's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 276 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Royal. The exposure-zones guide covers what Royal's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.