Dupo, IL
Dupo wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Dupo lands at the 14th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,388 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dupo at the 15th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Dupo's buildings actually sit
Only 3.4% of Dupo's 2,388 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 96.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Dupo compares
Dupo's 52nd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 14th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dupo ranks 26,936 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,535 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 689 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 14th national percentile, Dupo rates low 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
Dupo's 96.6% 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
Dupo's 14th-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 Dupo, see the exposure-zones guide.