Doon, IA
How exposed is Doon to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Doon lands at the 44th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 478 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 Doon at the 41st percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Where Doon's buildings actually sit
62.8% of Doon's 478 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 37.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Doon compares
Doon's 60th-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 44th 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, Doon ranks 17,641 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,744 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 404 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Doon and the insurance market
Doon's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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 Doon
Doon's 62.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 478 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Doon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Doon, see the exposure-zones guide.