East Carondelet, IL
East Carondelet, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Carondelet at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 306 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East Carondelet at the 15th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Where East Carondelet's buildings actually sit
Only 6.5% of East Carondelet's 306 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
East Carondelet against the rest of the country
Compare East Carondelet's two percentiles: 53rd within Illinois, only 15th nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Carondelet ranks 26,876 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 685 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
East Carondelet's low rating (15th 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
Even with 93.5% of East Carondelet outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 306 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Carondelet. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Carondelet, see the exposure-zones guide.