Salix, IA
Salix, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Salix sits at the 68th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 313 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 Salix at the 64th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
Salix's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.7% of Salix's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Salix ranks
Within Iowa, Salix ranks higher (91st percentile) than it does nationally (68th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salix ranks 10,173 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,281 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 88 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Salix and the insurance market
Salix's high rating (68th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Salix'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.
More on how this number was built
Salix's 68th-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 Salix, see the exposure-zones guide.