North Pekin, IL
North Pekin wildfire risk explained
North Pekin's 1,021 buildings earn a 23rd-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Pekin at the 24th percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
North Pekin's building exposure, zone by zone
North Pekin rates 56.4% Minimal exposure against just 6.6% Direct and 37% Indirect — of 1,021 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How North Pekin compares
Compare North Pekin's two percentiles: 68th within Illinois, only 23rd nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Pekin ranks 24,170 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,789 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 469 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Pekin
At the 23rd national percentile, North Pekin rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 56.4% of North Pekin outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,021 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Pekin. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Pekin, see the exposure-zones guide.