Tingley, IA
Tingley, IA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tingley's 185 buildings earn a 62nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tingley at the 63rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 14.1% of Tingley's 185 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Tingley compares
Within Iowa, Tingley ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (62nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tingley ranks 11,850 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,416 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 142 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Tingley and the insurance market
At the 62nd percentile nationally, Tingley carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 86% of Tingley outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Tingley's 62nd-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 Tingley, see the exposure-zones guide.