Peoria, IL
How exposed is Peoria to wildfire?
Peoria's 50,690 buildings earn a 15th-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, Peoria's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Where Peoria's buildings actually sit
Most of Peoria's buildings (84.3% of 50,690) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 50,690 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Peoria against the rest of the country
Compare Peoria's two percentiles: 53rd within Illinois, only 15th nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peoria ranks 26,813 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 170 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 678 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Peoria and the insurance market
Peoria's low wildfire rating (15th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 84.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Peoria 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 Peoria's 26,813-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Peoria, see the exposure-zones guide.