Logan, IA
Logan wildfire risk explained
Logan's 830 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Logan at the 54th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 19.8% of Logan's 830 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 80.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Logan against the rest of the country
Compare Logan's two percentiles: 80th within Iowa, only 58th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Logan ranks 13,298 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,342 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 204 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Logan and the insurance market
At the 58th national percentile, Logan rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Logan's 80.2% 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.
Where Logan's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 830 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Logan. The exposure-zones guide covers what Logan's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.