Galt, IL
Galt, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Galt at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 137 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Galt's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Where Galt's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 73% of Galt's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 27% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Galt compares
Compare Galt's two percentiles: 38th within Illinois, only 8th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Galt ranks 28,954 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,394 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 895 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Galt
At the 8th national percentile, Galt 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
With 73% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Galt 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
Galt's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Galt, see the exposure-zones guide.