Glasford, IL
Glasford wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Glasford at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 662 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glasford at the 19th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Where Glasford's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 92.8% of Glasford's 662 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 7.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Glasford compares
Compare Glasford's two percentiles: 59th within Illinois, only 19th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glasford ranks 25,644 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,036 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 590 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Glasford and the insurance market
Glasford's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Glasford
Because 92.8% of Glasford's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 662 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glasford. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Glasford, see the exposure-zones guide.