Fieldon, IL
Fieldon, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fieldon's 198 buildings earn a 23rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fieldon at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fieldon's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Fieldon (90.9% of 198 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9.1% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Fieldon ranks
Fieldon's 68th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 23rd 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, Fieldon ranks 24,167 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,918 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 466 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Fieldon and the insurance market
Fieldon's moderate wildfire rating (23rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Fieldon
Fieldon's 90.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Fieldon's figures come from
Fieldon's 23rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fieldon's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.