Bethalto, IL
Bethalto, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bethalto's 4,618 buildings earn a 10th-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 Bethalto at the 11th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 8% of Bethalto's 4,618 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Bethalto ranks
Bethalto's 43rd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 10th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bethalto ranks 28,418 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,681 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 826 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Bethalto and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Bethalto rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Bethalto
Bethalto's 92% 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 4,618 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bethalto. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bethalto, see the exposure-zones guide.