Wheatland, IA
How exposed is Wheatland to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wheatland at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 501 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wheatland at the 53rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wheatland's building exposure, zone by zone
92% of Wheatland's 501 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Wheatland against the rest of the country
Wheatland's 70th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 51st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wheatland ranks 15,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,332 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 304 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wheatland
Wheatland's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 92% of Wheatland's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Wheatland's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wheatland, see the exposure-zones guide.