Kiron, IA
How exposed is Kiron to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kiron at the 20th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 213 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kiron at the 18th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
87.8% of Kiron's 213 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Kiron compares
Kiron's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (32nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kiron ranks 25,274 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,360 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 689 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
Kiron's low wildfire rating (20th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Kiron's 87.8% 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 213 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kiron. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kiron, see the exposure-zones guide.