Freeport, IL
Freeport wildfire risk explained
Freeport's 12,062 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Freeport at the 18th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Freeport's buildings (94.1% of 12,062) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 12,062 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Freeport against the rest of the country
Compare Freeport's two percentiles: 56th within Illinois, only 17th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Freeport ranks 26,147 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,294 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 631 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Freeport
At the 17th national percentile, Freeport rates low 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
Even with 94.1% of Freeport 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.
Where Freeport's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Freeport's 26,147-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Freeport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.