Machesney Park, IL
Machesney Park wildfire risk explained
Machesney Park's 11,596 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Machesney Park at the 20th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Machesney Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Machesney Park rates 84.2% Minimal exposure against just 7.7% Direct and 8.1% Indirect — of 11,596 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 11,596 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Machesney Park against the rest of the country
Machesney Park's 59th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 19th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Machesney Park ranks 25,677 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,356 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 593 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Machesney Park and the insurance market
At the 19th national percentile, Machesney Park 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
Machesney Park's 84.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Machesney Park's 19th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Machesney Park, see the exposure-zones guide.