Macomb, IL
Macomb wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Macomb lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 6,477 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Macomb at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Macomb's buildings (84.3% of 6,477) 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. At 6,477 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Macomb against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Macomb ranks higher (42nd percentile) than it does nationally (10th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Macomb ranks 28,451 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,680 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 835 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Macomb and the insurance market
Macomb's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Macomb
Even with 84.3% of Macomb 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
Macomb's 10th-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 Macomb, see the exposure-zones guide.