Yetter, IA
Yetter, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Yetter lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 41 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Yetter at the 10th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Yetter's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Yetter's buildings (80.5% of 41) 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 Yetter compares
Yetter's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yetter ranks 28,047 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,137 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 811 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Yetter and the insurance market
Yetter's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 80.5% of Yetter outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Yetter's 28,047-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Yetter, see the exposure-zones guide.