Granger, IA
How exposed is Granger to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Granger lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 702 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Granger at the 33rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Granger's buildings actually sit
57.4% of Granger's 702 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 15.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Granger compares
Granger scores 34th nationally and 49th within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Granger ranks 20,919 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,634 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 525 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Granger
Granger's moderate rating (34th 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 Granger
Even with 57.4% of Granger outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Granger's 20,919-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Granger, see the exposure-zones guide.