Dixon, IA
How exposed is Dixon to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dixon at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 160 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dixon at the 44th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Where Dixon's buildings actually sit
Only 15% of Dixon's 160 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 85% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Dixon ranks
Dixon's 59th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 43rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dixon ranks 18,053 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,428 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 418 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dixon
Dixon's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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
Dixon's 85% 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.
More on how this number was built
Dixon's 43rd-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 Dixon, see the exposure-zones guide.