Leland, IL
Leland, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Leland at the 2nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 519 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Leland at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Leland's buildings (92.5% of 519) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Leland compares
Leland scores 2nd nationally and 14th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leland ranks 30,941 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,036 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,241 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Leland and the insurance market
At the 2nd national percentile, Leland 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
With 92.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Leland 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 Leland's 30,941-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leland, see the exposure-zones guide.