Apple Canyon Lake, IL
How exposed is Apple Canyon Lake to wildfire?
Apple Canyon Lake sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,007 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Apple Canyon Lake at the 32nd 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
USFS classifies 95.6% of Apple Canyon Lake's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0.8% Indirect share and far above its 3.6% Minimal share — a profile where 963 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Apple Canyon Lake ranks
Compare Apple Canyon Lake's two percentiles: 82nd within Illinois, only 31st nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Apple Canyon Lake ranks 21,611 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,883 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 267 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Apple Canyon Lake and the insurance market
Apple Canyon Lake's moderate rating (31st 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
Apple Canyon Lake's 95.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Apple Canyon Lake's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Apple Canyon Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.