Leaf River, IL
How exposed is Leaf River to wildfire?
Leaf River's 341 buildings earn a 16th-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, Leaf River's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 7.9% of Leaf River's 341 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Leaf River against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Leaf River ranks higher (54th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leaf River ranks 26,558 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,543 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 665 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Leaf River and the insurance market
Leaf River's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 92.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Leaf River 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 341 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Leaf River. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leaf River, see the exposure-zones guide.