Royal, IL
Royal, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Royal sits at the 0th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 209 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Royal at the 0th percentile, close to its 0th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 94.7% of Royal's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Royal ranks
Royal scores 0th nationally and 1st within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Royal ranks 31,486 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,505 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,429 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Royal and the insurance market
At the 0th national percentile, Royal rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Royal gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Royal's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 209 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Royal. The exposure-zones guide covers what Royal's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.