Hooppole, IL
Hooppole wildfire risk explained
Hooppole's 160 buildings earn a 3rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hooppole's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
83.8% of Hooppole's 160 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 16.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Hooppole against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Hooppole ranks higher (21st percentile) than it does nationally (3rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hooppole ranks 30,501 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,423 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,142 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 3rd national percentile, Hooppole 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
Hooppole's 83.8% 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
Hooppole's 3rd-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 Hooppole, see the exposure-zones guide.