Lambs Grove, IA
Lambs Grove wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lambs Grove at the 62nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 92 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lambs Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
92 buildings are counted in Lambs Grove, and 63% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 37% rated Minimal.
How Lambs Grove compares
Within Iowa, Lambs Grove ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (62nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lambs Grove ranks 12,036 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,394 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 148 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lambs Grove
Lambs Grove's 62nd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 63% of Lambs 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.
Where Lambs Grove's figures come from
Lambs Grove's 62nd-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 Lambs Grove's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.