Aledo, IL
How exposed is Aledo to wildfire?
Aledo's 2,166 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aledo at the 25th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Aledo's building exposure, zone by zone
Aledo rates 95.7% Minimal exposure against just 4.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,166 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Aledo against the rest of the country
Compare Aledo's two percentiles: 70th within Illinois, only 24th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aledo ranks 23,910 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,026 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 442 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Aledo and the insurance market
Aledo's moderate rating (24th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 95.7% of Aledo 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
Aledo's 24th-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 Aledo, see the exposure-zones guide.