State Center, IA
How exposed is State Center to wildfire?
State Center's 817 buildings earn a 23rd-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts State Center at the 24th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 15.4% of State Center's 817 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 84.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
State Center against the rest of the country
There's little gap between State Center's 23rd national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, State Center ranks 24,355 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,482 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 654 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
State Center and the insurance market
At the 23rd national percentile, State Center rates moderate 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 State Center
State Center's 84.6% 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.
Where State Center's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind State Center's 24,355-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what State Center's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.