Danforth, IL
Danforth, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Danforth at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 323 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 Danforth at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Danforth's buildings (89.5% of 323) 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.
Danforth against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Danforth's 1st national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danforth ranks 31,318 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,003 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,348 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Danforth
At the 1st national percentile, Danforth 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
Danforth's 89.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Danforth's 31,318-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Danforth, see the exposure-zones guide.