Godley, IL
Godley, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Godley sits at the 26th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 351 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Godley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
351 buildings are counted in Godley, and 79.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 20.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Godley compares
Compare Godley's two percentiles: 73rd within Illinois, only 26th nationally — a gap of 47 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Godley ranks 23,348 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,275 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 391 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 26th national percentile, Godley rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 79.8% of Godley'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Godley's 23,348-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Godley, see the exposure-zones guide.