Peru, IL
Peru wildfire risk explained
Peru's 5,834 buildings earn a 26th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Peru's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 27th percentile nationally.
Peru's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Peru (57.9% of 5,834 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 3.8% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,834 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Peru compares
Compare Peru's two percentiles: 72nd within Illinois, only 26th nationally — a gap of 47 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peru ranks 23,440 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,956 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 403 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Peru and the insurance market
Peru's moderate rating (26th 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 Peru
Because 57.9% of Peru's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Peru's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Peru's 23,440-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Peru's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.