Channahon, IL
Channahon, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Channahon at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 5,447 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Channahon at the 40th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Channahon's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Channahon's buildings (76.1% of 5,447) 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. At 5,447 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Channahon against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Channahon ranks higher (93rd percentile) than it does nationally (41st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Channahon ranks 18,616 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,169 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 100 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Channahon
At the 41st national percentile, Channahon rates elevated 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
With 76.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Channahon gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,447 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Channahon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Channahon, see the exposure-zones guide.