Byron, IL
Byron, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Byron's 1,630 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Byron's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 28th percentile nationally.
Where Byron's buildings actually sit
Most of Byron's buildings (63.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Byron compares
Compare Byron's two percentiles: 76th within Illinois, only 27th nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Byron ranks 22,966 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,651 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 353 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Byron's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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 Byron
Because 63.5% of Byron's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Byron's figures come from
Byron's 27th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Byron's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.