Archer, IA
Archer, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Archer's 111 buildings earn a 1st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Archer at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Where Archer's buildings actually sit
Most of Archer's buildings (80.2% of 111) 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 Archer compares
Archer's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (1st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Archer ranks 31,173 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,581 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 1,007 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Archer
At the 1st national percentile, Archer rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 80.2% of Archer 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 Archer's 31,173-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Archer, see the exposure-zones guide.