Stanton, IA
Stanton wildfire risk explained
Stanton's 434 buildings earn a 56th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Stanton at the 56th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 37.3% of Stanton's 434 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 62.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Stanton compares
Compare Stanton's two percentiles: 77th within Iowa, only 56th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stanton ranks 13,832 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 236 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Stanton
At the 56th national percentile, Stanton rates elevated 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
Stanton's 62.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 434 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Stanton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Stanton, see the exposure-zones guide.