Rockdale, IL
Rockdale wildfire risk explained
Rockdale's 1,270 buildings earn a 27th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rockdale at the 27th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rockdale's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1% of Rockdale's 1,270 buildings carry Direct exposure and 35.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 63.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Rockdale compares
Compare Rockdale's two percentiles: 76th within Illinois, only 27th nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rockdale ranks 22,906 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,242 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 351 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Rockdale and the insurance market
Rockdale's moderate rating (27th 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
Rockdale's 63.6% 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.
Where Rockdale's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,270 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rockdale. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rockdale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.