Sherrill, IA
Sherrill, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sherrill's 122 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sherrill at the 26th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sherrill's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Sherrill: 97.5% of its 122 buildings, versus 2.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Sherrill compares
Sherrill's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (37th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (24th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sherrill ranks 23,883 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,060 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 637 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Sherrill and the insurance market
At the 24th national percentile, Sherrill rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Sherrill's 97.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Sherrill's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sherrill's 23,883-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sherrill's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.