Grand Junction, IA
Grand Junction, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Grand Junction's 625 buildings earn a 6th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Grand Junction's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Grand Junction rates 73.8% Minimal exposure against just 26.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 625 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Grand Junction against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Grand Junction's 6th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand Junction ranks 29,751 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,504 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 887 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grand Junction
Grand Junction's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 73.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Grand Junction gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Grand Junction's figures come from
Grand Junction's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grand Junction's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.