Glenwood, IL
Glenwood wildfire risk explained
Glenwood sits at the 50th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,499 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glenwood at the 53rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Glenwood's buildings actually sit
Only 3.1% of Glenwood's 3,499 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 96.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Glenwood against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Glenwood ranks higher (98th percentile) than it does nationally (50th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenwood ranks 15,625 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,774 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 24 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Glenwood and the insurance market
At the 50th national percentile, Glenwood rates elevated 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
Glenwood's 96.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Glenwood's 50th-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 Glenwood, see the exposure-zones guide.