Asbury, IA
Asbury, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Asbury's 1,948 buildings earn a 23rd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Asbury at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Asbury's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 60.8% of Asbury's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 28% Direct and 11.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Asbury against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Asbury's 23rd national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Asbury ranks 24,288 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 648 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
Asbury's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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
Asbury's 60.8% 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
Asbury's 23rd-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 Asbury, see the exposure-zones guide.