Minooka, IL
Minooka, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Minooka's 4,111 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Minooka at the 18th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Where Minooka's buildings actually sit
87.4% of Minooka's 4,111 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Minooka against the rest of the country
Compare Minooka's two percentiles: 56th within Illinois, only 17th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minooka ranks 26,214 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,134 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 639 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Minooka and the insurance market
Minooka's low wildfire rating (17th 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 Minooka
With 87.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Minooka 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
Minooka's 17th-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 Minooka, see the exposure-zones guide.