Streator, IL
Streator wildfire risk explained
Streator sits at the 16th 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 7,755 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 Streator at the 17th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Streator's building exposure, zone by zone
Streator rates 95.6% Minimal exposure against just 4.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,755 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,755 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Streator ranks
Streator's 54th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 16th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Streator ranks 26,501 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,199 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 662 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Streator and the insurance market
Streator's low wildfire rating (16th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Streator
Even with 95.6% of Streator 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
Streator's 16th-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 Streator, see the exposure-zones guide.