Tabor, IA
Tabor wildfire risk explained
Tabor sits at the 47th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 580 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tabor at the 47th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tabor's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 70.5% of Tabor's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29.1% Direct and 0.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Tabor against the rest of the country
Within Iowa, Tabor ranks higher (63rd percentile) than it does nationally (47th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tabor ranks 16,823 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,106 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 373 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tabor
At the 47th national percentile, Tabor rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Tabor
With 70.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Tabor 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
Tabor's 47th-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 Tabor, see the exposure-zones guide.