McLeansboro, IL
McLeansboro wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts McLeansboro at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,930 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, McLeansboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 31st percentile nationally.
Where McLeansboro's buildings actually sit
McLeansboro rates 77.6% Minimal exposure against just 22.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,930 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where McLeansboro ranks
McLeansboro's 79th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 29th 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, McLeansboro ranks 22,273 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 313 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
McLeansboro and the insurance market
McLeansboro's moderate wildfire rating (29th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 77.6% of McLeansboro 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.
Where McLeansboro's figures come from
McLeansboro's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what McLeansboro's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.