Sigourney, IA
How exposed is Sigourney to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sigourney lands at the 58th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,342 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sigourney at the 60th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sigourney's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 83.4% of Sigourney's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.4% Direct and 1.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Sigourney ranks
Sigourney's 81st-percentile standing inside Iowa outpaces its 58th 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, Sigourney ranks 13,172 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,868 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 196 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Sigourney and the insurance market
At the 58th national percentile, Sigourney rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sigourney's 83.4% 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
Sigourney's 58th-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 Sigourney, see the exposure-zones guide.