Stanley, IA
Stanley, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Stanley's 83 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Stanley at the 4th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Stanley's buildings actually sit
Most of Stanley's buildings (88% of 83) 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.
Where Stanley ranks
Stanley scores 4th nationally and 8th within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stanley ranks 30,262 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,759 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 937 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Stanley and the insurance market
At the 4th national percentile, Stanley rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Stanley
With 88% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Stanley 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 Stanley's 30,262-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Stanley, see the exposure-zones guide.