Saylorville, IA
How exposed is Saylorville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Saylorville lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 2,281 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Saylorville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 39th percentile nationally.
Saylorville's building exposure, zone by zone
51% of Saylorville's 2,281 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,163 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 48.9% are Minimal.
Saylorville against the rest of the country
Saylorville's 52nd-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 37th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Saylorville ranks 19,880 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,744 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 488 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Saylorville
At the 37th national percentile, Saylorville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Saylorville's 51% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Saylorville's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Saylorville, see the exposure-zones guide.