Atwood, IL
Atwood, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Atwood sits at the 2nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 772 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 Atwood at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Where Atwood's buildings actually sit
Only 3.5% of Atwood's 772 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 96.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Atwood ranks
Atwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Atwood ranks 31,001 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,898 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,254 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Atwood
Atwood's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Atwood
Atwood's 96.5% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 772 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Atwood. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Atwood, see the exposure-zones guide.