Normal, IL
Normal wildfire risk explained
Normal's 14,666 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Normal's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
Normal's building exposure, zone by zone
Normal rates 98% Minimal exposure against just 2.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 14,666 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 14,666 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Normal ranks
Normal scores 2nd nationally and 15th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Normal ranks 30,849 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,015 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,226 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Normal
Normal's low wildfire rating (2nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Normal gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Normal's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Normal's 30,849-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Normal's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.