Mendon, IL
How exposed is Mendon to wildfire?
Mendon's 556 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mendon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Where Mendon's buildings actually sit
Mendon rates 97.7% Minimal exposure against just 2.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 556 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Mendon against the rest of the country
Mendon's 54th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 16th 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, Mendon ranks 26,624 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,472 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 667 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mendon
Mendon's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 97.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mendon 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
Mendon's 16th-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 Mendon, see the exposure-zones guide.