Rock Island Arsenal, IL
How exposed is Rock Island Arsenal to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rock Island Arsenal lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 218 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rock Island Arsenal's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 45th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Rock Island Arsenal rates 81.2% Minimal exposure against just 18.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 218 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Rock Island Arsenal against the rest of the country
Compare Rock Island Arsenal's two percentiles: 93rd within Illinois, only 41st nationally — a gap of 52 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rock Island Arsenal ranks 18,585 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,190 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 99 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rock Island Arsenal
Rock Island Arsenal's elevated rating (41st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 81.2% of Rock Island Arsenal outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Rock Island Arsenal's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rock Island Arsenal, see the exposure-zones guide.