Roberts, IL
Roberts, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Roberts lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 315 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Roberts's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
Where Roberts's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 78.7% of Roberts's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 21.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Roberts ranks
Roberts's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (13th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roberts ranks 31,010 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,226 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,263 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roberts
Roberts's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Roberts's 78.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Roberts's 31,010-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Roberts, see the exposure-zones guide.