Craig, IA
Craig, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Craig at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 87 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Craig at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Craig rates 67.8% Minimal exposure against just 32.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 87 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Craig ranks
There's little gap between Craig's 4th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Craig ranks 30,260 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,613 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 935 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Craig
Craig's low wildfire rating (4th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Craig's 67.8% 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.
Where Craig's figures come from
Craig's 4th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Craig's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.