Orient, IL
Orient wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Orient at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 253 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Orient at the 31st percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Orient's building exposure, zone by zone
253 buildings are counted in Orient, and 60.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Orient compares
Orient's 79th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 30th 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, Orient ranks 22,212 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,041 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 308 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orient
At the 30th national percentile, Orient 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
Orient's 60.1% 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 Orient's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orient's 22,212-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Orient's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.