Sadorus, IL
Sadorus wildfire risk explained
Sadorus's 353 buildings earn a 0th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sadorus at the 0th percentile, close to its 0th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
94.6% of Sadorus's 353 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Sadorus ranks
Sadorus scores 0th nationally and 3rd 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, Sadorus ranks 31,453 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,229 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,413 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Sadorus and the insurance market
Sadorus's low rating (0th 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
Sadorus's 94.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 353 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sadorus. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sadorus, see the exposure-zones guide.