Tennant, IA
Tennant wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Tennant at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 85 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tennant at the 3rd percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Where Tennant's buildings actually sit
Only 41.2% of Tennant's 85 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 58.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Tennant against the rest of the country
Tennant scores 4th nationally and 7th within Iowa — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tennant ranks 30,323 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,687 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 944 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tennant
Tennant's low wildfire rating (4th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Tennant's 58.8% 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 Tennant's figures come from
Tennant's 4th-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 Tennant's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.