Allendale, IL
Allendale, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Allendale lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 306 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Allendale at the 6th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Allendale's buildings actually sit
86.3% of Allendale's 306 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Allendale against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Allendale ranks higher (31st percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Allendale ranks 29,710 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,460 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 999 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Allendale and the insurance market
Allendale's low wildfire rating (6th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Allendale's 86.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Allendale's 29,710-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Allendale, see the exposure-zones guide.