Truesdale, IA
Truesdale, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Truesdale lands at the 4th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 74 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Truesdale at the 3rd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 5.4% of Truesdale's 74 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Truesdale compares
Truesdale scores 4th nationally and 7th 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, Truesdale ranks 30,384 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,126 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 948 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Truesdale
Truesdale's low wildfire rating (4th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Truesdale 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 Truesdale's 30,384-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Truesdale, see the exposure-zones guide.