Cleghorn, IA
How exposed is Cleghorn to wildfire?
Cleghorn's 174 buildings earn a 10th-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, Cleghorn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
Cleghorn's building exposure, zone by zone
Cleghorn rates 64.4% Minimal exposure against just 35.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 174 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Cleghorn against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Cleghorn's 10th national percentile and its 19th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cleghorn ranks 28,454 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,853 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 821 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Cleghorn and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Cleghorn rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Cleghorn
With 64.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cleghorn 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cleghorn's 28,454-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cleghorn, see the exposure-zones guide.