Bartelso, IL
Bartelso, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bartelso's 358 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bartelso at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Bartelso's building exposure, zone by zone
Bartelso rates 91.6% Minimal exposure against just 8.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 358 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Bartelso ranks
Compare Bartelso's two percentiles: 23rd within Illinois, only 4th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bartelso ranks 30,340 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,108 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,111 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Bartelso and the insurance market
At the 4th national percentile, Bartelso rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 91.6% of Bartelso 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 358 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bartelso. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bartelso, see the exposure-zones guide.