Leonore, IL
How exposed is Leonore to wildfire?
Leonore sits at the 2nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 127 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Leonore's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
Leonore's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 7.1% of Leonore's 127 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Leonore compares
Leonore's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (14th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leonore ranks 30,942 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,847 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,242 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
Leonore's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 92.9% of Leonore outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leonore's 30,942-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leonore, see the exposure-zones guide.