Tiffin, IA
Tiffin, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tiffin sits at the 52nd 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 1,410 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 Tiffin at the 53rd percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Tiffin's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Tiffin's buildings (73.3% of 1,410) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Tiffin against the rest of the country
Within Iowa, Tiffin ranks higher (71st percentile) than it does nationally (52nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tiffin ranks 15,219 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,586 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 296 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Tiffin and the insurance market
Tiffin's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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
Tiffin's 73.3% 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 Tiffin's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,410 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tiffin. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tiffin's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.