Winfield, IA
How exposed is Winfield to wildfire?
Winfield's 659 buildings earn a 40th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6.5% of Winfield's 659 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Winfield compares
Winfield scores 40th nationally and 54th 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, Winfield ranks 19,058 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,075 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 465 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winfield
Winfield's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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 93.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Winfield 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 Winfield's 19,058-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Winfield, see the exposure-zones guide.