Auburn, IA
How exposed is Auburn to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Auburn at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 217 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Auburn at the 19th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Auburn's building exposure, zone by zone
95.4% of Auburn's 217 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Auburn compares
Auburn scores 19th nationally and 31st within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Auburn ranks 25,430 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,232 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 697 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Auburn
Auburn's low wildfire rating (19th 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.
Hardening a home in Auburn
With 95.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Auburn gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 217 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Auburn. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Auburn, see the exposure-zones guide.