Schleswig, IA
How exposed is Schleswig to wildfire?
Schleswig's 584 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Schleswig's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
Schleswig's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Schleswig's buildings (82.7% of 584) 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.
Schleswig against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Schleswig's 10th national percentile and its 20th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Schleswig ranks 28,391 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,046 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 820 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Schleswig
Schleswig's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Schleswig 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
Schleswig's 10th-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 Schleswig, see the exposure-zones guide.