Beason, IL
Beason, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Beason lands at the 0th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 182 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Beason at the 0th percentile, close to its 0th-percentile risk score.
Where Beason's buildings actually sit
Beason rates 86.8% Minimal exposure against just 13.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 182 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Beason ranks
There's little gap between Beason's 0th national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beason ranks 31,477 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,528 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,420 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beason
Beason's low wildfire rating (0th 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
With 86.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Beason gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Beason's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beason's 31,477-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Beason's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.