Lanesboro, IA
How exposed is Lanesboro to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lanesboro lands at the 24th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 170 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lanesboro at the 22nd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lanesboro's buildings actually sit
Lanesboro rates 76.5% Minimal exposure against just 23.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 170 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Lanesboro ranks
There's little gap between Lanesboro's 24th national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lanesboro ranks 23,984 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,022 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 640 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lanesboro
Lanesboro's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
Hardening a home in Lanesboro
Even with 76.5% of Lanesboro 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
Lanesboro's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lanesboro, see the exposure-zones guide.