East Dubuque, IL
How exposed is East Dubuque to wildfire?
USFS scores East Dubuque at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 892 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Dubuque's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Where East Dubuque's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 73.8% of East Dubuque's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23.7% Direct and 2.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How East Dubuque compares
Within Illinois, East Dubuque ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Dubuque ranks 22,493 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,792 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 326 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
East Dubuque and the insurance market
East Dubuque's moderate rating (29th 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
With 73.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Dubuque gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 892 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Dubuque. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Dubuque, see the exposure-zones guide.