Buckley, IL
How exposed is Buckley to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Buckley lands at the 4th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 440 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Buckley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
Where Buckley's buildings actually sit
Most of Buckley's buildings (95.9% of 440) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Buckley compares
Within Illinois, Buckley ranks higher (24th percentile) than it does nationally (4th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Buckley ranks 30,277 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,451 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,100 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Buckley and the insurance market
At the 4th national percentile, Buckley rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 95.9% of Buckley outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Buckley's 30,277-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Buckley, see the exposure-zones guide.