Delavan, IL
How exposed is Delavan to wildfire?
Delavan sits at the 1st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 983 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Delavan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Delavan's buildings actually sit
95.2% of Delavan's 983 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Delavan compares
Delavan 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, Delavan ranks 31,349 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,051 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,361 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Delavan
Delavan's low rating (1st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Delavan's 95.2% 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 Delavan's 31,349-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Delavan, see the exposure-zones guide.