Protivin, IA
Protivin, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Protivin sits at the 16th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 267 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Protivin at the 16th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 87.6% of Protivin's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Protivin against the rest of the country
Protivin's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (26th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Protivin ranks 26,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,599 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 754 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Protivin and the insurance market
Protivin's low wildfire rating (16th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Protivin
With 87.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Protivin gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 267 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Protivin. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Protivin, see the exposure-zones guide.