Eagle Grove, IA
Eagle Grove, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Eagle Grove at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,162 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Eagle Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Eagle Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 88.8% of Eagle Grove's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 11.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Eagle Grove ranks
Eagle Grove's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (15th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eagle Grove ranks 29,402 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,037 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 867 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Eagle Grove's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Eagle Grove
With 88.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Eagle Grove 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 Eagle Grove's 29,402-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Eagle Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.