Boody, IL
How exposed is Boody to wildfire?
USFS scores Boody at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 227 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Boody at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
92.1% of Boody's 227 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 7.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Boody compares
There's little gap between Boody's 1st national percentile and its 10th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boody ranks 31,160 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,882 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,299 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boody
Boody's low wildfire rating (1st 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.
Hardening a home in Boody
Boody's 92.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Boody's 31,160-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Boody, see the exposure-zones guide.