New Grand Chain, IL
New Grand Chain, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
New Grand Chain's 194 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, New Grand Chain's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 33rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in New Grand Chain: 63.4% of its 194 buildings, versus 34.5% Indirect and 2.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
New Grand Chain against the rest of the country
New Grand Chain's 81st-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 31st 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, New Grand Chain ranks 21,675 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,064 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 271 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Grand Chain
New Grand Chain's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in New Grand Chain
New Grand Chain's 63.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Grand Chain's 21,675-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Grand Chain, see the exposure-zones guide.