Wallingford, IA
Wallingford wildfire risk explained
Wallingford 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 182 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 Wallingford at the 46th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Where Wallingford's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Wallingford: 53.9% of its 182 buildings, versus 40.1% Indirect and 6% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Wallingford against the rest of the country
Compare Wallingford's two percentiles: 65th within Iowa, only 47th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wallingford ranks 16,637 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,533 by building count (1 is largest). Within Iowa alone, it ranks 362 of 1,017 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Iowa on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wallingford
Wallingford's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 53.9% of Wallingford in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wallingford's 16,637-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wallingford, see the exposure-zones guide.