Brocton, IL
Brocton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Brocton at the 0th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 284 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brocton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 0th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Brocton rates 75.7% Minimal exposure against just 24.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 284 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Brocton ranks
Brocton scores 0th nationally and 1st within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brocton ranks 31,507 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,053 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,433 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Brocton and the insurance market
Brocton'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.
Hardening a home in Brocton
With 75.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brocton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Brocton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brocton's 31,507-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brocton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.