Davenport, IA
Davenport wildfire risk explained
Davenport sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 44,949 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Davenport at the 48th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
Davenport's building exposure, zone by zone
93.2% of Davenport's 44,949 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 44,949 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Davenport against the rest of the country
Compare Davenport's two percentiles: 62nd within Iowa, only 46th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Davenport ranks 17,110 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 204 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 384 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Davenport and the insurance market
Davenport's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 93.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Davenport 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 Davenport's 17,110-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Davenport, see the exposure-zones guide.