Colfax, IL
Colfax, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Colfax lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 682 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 Colfax at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Colfax's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 4.6% of Colfax's 682 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Colfax compares
Colfax's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Colfax ranks 30,816 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,837 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,215 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Colfax and the insurance market
Colfax's low wildfire rating (2nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 95.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Colfax 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Colfax's 30,816-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Colfax, see the exposure-zones guide.