Allison, IA
Allison, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Allison's 865 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Allison's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 9.9% of Allison's 865 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 90.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Allison against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Allison's 5th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Allison ranks 29,975 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,029 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 904 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Allison's low wildfire rating (5th 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
Allison's 90.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Allison's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Allison, see the exposure-zones guide.