Plover, IA
Plover wildfire risk explained
Plover's 89 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Plover at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Where Plover's buildings actually sit
Only 24.7% of Plover's 89 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 75.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Plover against the rest of the country
Plover's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (9th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (4th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plover ranks 30,224 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,532 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 932 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plover
At the 4th national percentile, Plover rates low 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 Plover
With 75.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Plover gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Plover's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plover's 30,224-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Plover's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.