Mound Station, IL
How exposed is Mound Station to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mound Station at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 106 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mound Station at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mound Station's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 93.4% of Mound Station's 106 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 2.8% Direct and 3.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Mound Station compares
Within Illinois, Mound Station ranks higher (35th percentile) than it does nationally (7th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mound Station ranks 29,334 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,764 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 946 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Mound Station and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Mound Station rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mound Station (93.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Mound Station's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 106 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mound Station. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mound Station's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.