University Park, IA
How exposed is University Park to wildfire?
University Park's 241 buildings earn a 58th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks University Park at the 60th national percentile — 2 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
University Park rates 88% Minimal exposure against just 12% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 241 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where University Park ranks
Compare University Park's two percentiles: 80th within Iowa, only 58th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, University Park ranks 13,300 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,428 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 206 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in University Park
University Park's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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.
Hardening a home in University Park
University Park's 88% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind University Park's 13,300-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond University Park, see the exposure-zones guide.