Grand Ridge, IL
Grand Ridge wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grand Ridge lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 374 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grand Ridge at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Grand Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
Grand Ridge rates 97.6% Minimal exposure against just 2.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 374 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Grand Ridge compares
There's little gap between Grand Ridge's 1st national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand Ridge ranks 31,257 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,777 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,328 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grand Ridge
Grand Ridge's low rating (1st 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 Grand Ridge
Grand Ridge's 97.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 374 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grand Ridge. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Grand Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.