Cantrall, IL
Cantrall wildfire risk explained
Cantrall's 96 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cantrall at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Cantrall's buildings actually sit
Only 40.6% of Cantrall's 96 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 59.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Cantrall against the rest of the country
Cantrall's 34th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 7th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cantrall ranks 29,366 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,223 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 950 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
At the 7th national percentile, Cantrall rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Cantrall's 59.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 96 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cantrall. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cantrall, see the exposure-zones guide.