Vincent, IA
How exposed is Vincent to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Vincent lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 132 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vincent at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Where Vincent's buildings actually sit
Most of Vincent's buildings (85.6% of 132) 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.
How Vincent compares
Vincent's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (2nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vincent ranks 31,021 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,620 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 1,000 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Vincent and the insurance market
Vincent's low wildfire rating (2nd 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
Vincent's 85.6% 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 Vincent's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vincent's 31,021-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Vincent's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.