Mark, IL
Mark wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mark at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 347 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mark at the 14th 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
USFS classifies 85% of Mark's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Mark ranks
Within Illinois, Mark ranks higher (52nd percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mark ranks 27,033 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,390 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 699 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Mark and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Mark 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 85% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mark 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 Mark's 27,033-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mark, see the exposure-zones guide.