South Amana, IA
How exposed is South Amana to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, South Amana lands at the 66th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 119 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks South Amana at the 67th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 62.2% of South Amana's 119 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 37.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How South Amana compares
Compare South Amana's two percentiles: 90th within Iowa, only 66th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Amana ranks 10,744 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,192 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 105 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in South Amana
South Amana's high rating (66th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 62.2% of South Amana's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind South Amana's 10,744-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond South Amana, see the exposure-zones guide.