East Lynn, IL
East Lynn, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores East Lynn at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 105 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Lynn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
East Lynn's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 25.7% of East Lynn's 105 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 74.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How East Lynn compares
There's little gap between East Lynn's 1st national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Lynn ranks 31,254 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,794 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,325 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
East Lynn and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, East Lynn rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in East Lynn
With 74.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Lynn gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where East Lynn's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 105 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Lynn. The exposure-zones guide covers what East Lynn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.