Meyer, IA
Meyer, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Meyer at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 43 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Meyer at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Meyer's building exposure, zone by zone
Meyer rates 76.7% Minimal exposure against just 23.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 43 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Meyer against the rest of the country
Meyer scores 2nd nationally and 2nd within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Meyer ranks 30,986 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,100 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 996 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Meyer
Meyer's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Meyer
Even with 76.7% of Meyer 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
Meyer's 2nd-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 Meyer, see the exposure-zones guide.