Peoria Heights, IL
How exposed is Peoria Heights to wildfire?
USFS scores Peoria Heights at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 3,501 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Peoria Heights at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Peoria Heights (51.5% of 3,501 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 5.2% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Peoria Heights ranks
Compare Peoria Heights's two percentiles: 51st within Illinois, only 14th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peoria Heights ranks 27,096 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,772 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 708 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Peoria Heights
At the 14th national percentile, Peoria Heights rates low 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Peoria Heights (51.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Peoria Heights's 27,096-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Peoria Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.