Chenoa, IL
How exposed is Chenoa to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Chenoa lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,207 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chenoa at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Chenoa's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Chenoa's buildings (95.4% of 1,207) 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.
Where Chenoa ranks
Chenoa scores 1st nationally and 6th 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, Chenoa ranks 31,348 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,605 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,360 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 1st national percentile, Chenoa rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Chenoa
With 95.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Chenoa 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
Chenoa's 1st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Chenoa, see the exposure-zones guide.