Minonk, IL
How exposed is Minonk to wildfire?
Minonk sits at the 0th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,286 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Minonk at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Minonk's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 94.2% of Minonk's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Minonk ranks
Minonk's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (5th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (0th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minonk ranks 31,391 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,382 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Minonk and the insurance market
Minonk's low wildfire rating (0th 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.
Hardening a home in Minonk
Minonk's 94.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,286 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Minonk. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Minonk, see the exposure-zones guide.