Rockford, IA
Rockford, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rockford's 548 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rockford's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 28th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Rockford rates 90.7% Minimal exposure against just 9.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 548 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Rockford ranks
Rockford's risk sits at a similar level relative to Iowa (43rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockford ranks 22,560 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,600 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 584 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rockford
Rockford's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Rockford's 90.7% 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 Rockford's figures come from
Rockford's 28th-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 Rockford's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.