Kankakee, IL
Kankakee, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kankakee lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 12,175 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kankakee at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Kankakee's buildings actually sit
Kankakee rates 99.2% Minimal exposure against just 0.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 12,175 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 12,175 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Kankakee against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Kankakee ranks higher (27th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kankakee ranks 30,029 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,275 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,053 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
Kankakee's low wildfire rating (5th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Kankakee
With 99.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kankakee gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Kankakee's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kankakee's 30,029-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kankakee's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.