Iroquois, IL
Iroquois, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Iroquois's 196 buildings earn a 5th-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, Iroquois's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
Where Iroquois's buildings actually sit
84.2% of Iroquois's 196 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 15.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Iroquois ranks
Compare Iroquois's two percentiles: 26th within Illinois, only 5th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Iroquois ranks 30,062 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,989 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,066 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Iroquois and the insurance market
Iroquois's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 84.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Iroquois gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Iroquois's 30,062-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Iroquois, see the exposure-zones guide.