Orion, IL
How exposed is Orion to wildfire?
Orion's 1,036 buildings earn a 5th-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 Orion at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 96% of Orion's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Orion ranks
Compare Orion's two percentiles: 26th within Illinois, only 5th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orion ranks 30,090 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,686 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,070 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Orion and the insurance market
Orion's low rating (5th 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 Orion
With 96% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Orion gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orion's 30,090-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Orion, see the exposure-zones guide.