Blue Mound, IL
Blue Mound, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Blue Mound's 654 buildings earn a 1st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blue Mound at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Blue Mound's buildings actually sit
95.6% of Blue Mound's 654 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Blue Mound ranks
There's little gap between Blue Mound's 1st national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Mound ranks 31,191 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,148 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,305 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blue Mound
Blue Mound's low rating (1st 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
Blue Mound's 95.6% 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
Blue Mound's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blue Mound, see the exposure-zones guide.