Colesburg, IA
Colesburg wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Colesburg lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 276 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Colesburg at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
276 buildings are counted in Colesburg, and 87% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 13% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Colesburg compares
Colesburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Colesburg ranks 28,202 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,316 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 814 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Colesburg
At the 11th national percentile, Colesburg rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 87% of Colesburg's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Colesburg's 11th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Colesburg, see the exposure-zones guide.