Nason, IL
Nason, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Nason's 153 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nason at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Nason's 153 counted buildings, 54.3% carry Direct exposure and only 45.8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Nason against the rest of the country
Compare Nason's two percentiles: 37th within Illinois, only 8th nationally — a gap of 29 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nason ranks 29,079 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,740 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 912 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Nason and the insurance market
Nason's low wildfire rating (8th 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 Nason
Nason's 54.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Nason's figures come from
Nason's 8th-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 Nason's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.