East Moline, IL
East Moline, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Moline sits at the 29th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 9,450 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 Moline at the 30th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Where East Moline's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 92.5% of East Moline's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.7% Direct and 2.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 9,450 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where East Moline ranks
Compare East Moline's two percentiles: 78th within Illinois, only 29th nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Moline ranks 22,430 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,728 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 321 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
East Moline and the insurance market
At the 29th national percentile, East Moline rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 92.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Moline 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 9,450 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Moline. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Moline, see the exposure-zones guide.