Roodhouse, IL
How exposed is Roodhouse to wildfire?
USFS scores Roodhouse at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,194 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Roodhouse's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 4.4% of Roodhouse's 1,194 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Roodhouse compares
Within Illinois, Roodhouse ranks higher (28th percentile) than it does nationally (5th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roodhouse ranks 29,965 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,684 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,037 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roodhouse
Roodhouse's low rating (5th 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
Roodhouse's 95.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
Roodhouse's 5th-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 Roodhouse, see the exposure-zones guide.