Radom, IL
Radom, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Radom at the 17th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 178 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 Radom at the 17th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Where Radom's buildings actually sit
178 buildings are counted in Radom, and 73.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 26.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Radom against the rest of the country
Radom's 56th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 17th 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, Radom ranks 26,180 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,708 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 635 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Radom and the insurance market
Radom's low wildfire rating (17th 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
Radom's 73.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Radom's 26,180-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Radom, see the exposure-zones guide.