Woodburn, IA
How exposed is Woodburn to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Woodburn lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 162 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 Woodburn at the 75th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Where Woodburn's buildings actually sit
Of Woodburn's 162 counted buildings, 51.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Woodburn compares
Within Iowa, Woodburn ranks higher (97th percentile) than it does nationally (73rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodburn ranks 8,376 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,331 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 36 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodburn
Woodburn's 73rd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Woodburn
With 51.2% of Woodburn in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Woodburn's 73rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Woodburn, see the exposure-zones guide.