Garden Grove, IA
Garden Grove wildfire risk explained
Garden Grove's 174 buildings earn a 68th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Garden Grove at the 70th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
Garden Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 71.8% of Garden Grove's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 28.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 125 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Garden Grove compares
Compare Garden Grove's two percentiles: 92nd within Iowa, only 68th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Garden Grove ranks 9,987 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,854 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 79 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Garden Grove
At the 68th percentile nationally, Garden Grove carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Garden Grove
With 71.8% of Garden Grove in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Garden Grove's 9,987-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Garden Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.