Dongola, IL
Dongola wildfire risk explained
Dongola's 462 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dongola at the 46th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Dongola's buildings actually sit
Of Dongola's 462 counted buildings, 52.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Dongola ranks
Within Illinois, Dongola ranks higher (95th percentile) than it does nationally (43rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dongola ranks 17,924 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,023 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 73 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dongola
At the 43rd national percentile, Dongola 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
Dongola's 52.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dongola's 17,924-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Dongola, see the exposure-zones guide.