Coralville, IA
How exposed is Coralville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Coralville lands at the 59th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 5,710 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Coralville at the 62nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 17.9% of Coralville's 5,710 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,710 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Coralville against the rest of the country
Compare Coralville's two percentiles: 82nd within Iowa, only 59th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coralville ranks 12,881 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,027 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 181 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Coralville
Coralville's elevated wildfire rating (59th 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 Coralville
Even with 82.1% of Coralville 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
Coralville's 59th-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 Coralville, see the exposure-zones guide.