Long Grove, IA
Long Grove wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Long Grove lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 359 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Long Grove at the 39th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 30.9% of Long Grove's 359 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Long Grove ranks
Compare Long Grove's two percentiles: 53rd within Iowa, only 37th nationally — a gap of 15 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Long Grove ranks 19,757 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,081 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 483 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Long Grove and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Long Grove rates moderate 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
With 69.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Long Grove gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Long Grove's figures come from
Long Grove's 37th-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 Long Grove's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.