Knoxville, IA
Knoxville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Knoxville at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,058 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Knoxville at the 62nd percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Knoxville's building exposure, zone by zone
Knoxville rates 91.9% Minimal exposure against just 8.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 4,058 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Knoxville compares
Compare Knoxville's two percentiles: 84th within Iowa, only 61st nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Knoxville ranks 12,314 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,182 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 159 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Knoxville and the insurance market
Knoxville's high rating (61st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Knoxville 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 Knoxville's 12,314-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Knoxville, see the exposure-zones guide.