LaSalle, IL
LaSalle wildfire risk explained
LaSalle's 5,313 buildings earn a 23rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, LaSalle's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
LaSalle rates 83.2% Minimal exposure against just 4.8% Direct and 12% Indirect — of 5,313 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,313 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
LaSalle against the rest of the country
Compare LaSalle's two percentiles: 68th within Illinois, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, LaSalle ranks 24,169 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,250 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 468 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
LaSalle's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 83.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, LaSalle gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where LaSalle's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind LaSalle's 24,169-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what LaSalle's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.