Larrabee, IA
Larrabee wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Larrabee at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 121 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Larrabee at the 21st percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where Larrabee's buildings actually sit
Larrabee rates 58.7% Minimal exposure against just 41.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 121 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Larrabee compares
There's little gap between Larrabee's 23rd national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Iowa, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Larrabee ranks 24,420 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,104 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 655 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
At the 23rd national percentile, Larrabee rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Larrabee
Larrabee's 58.7% 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 121 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Larrabee. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Larrabee, see the exposure-zones guide.