Tallula, IL
Tallula, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tallula sits at the 3rd 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 386 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 Tallula at the 3rd percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
Tallula's building exposure, zone by zone
Tallula rates 95.9% Minimal exposure against just 4.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 386 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Tallula against the rest of the country
Compare Tallula's two percentiles: 22nd within Illinois, only 3rd nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tallula ranks 30,441 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,487 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,129 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tallula
Tallula's low wildfire rating (3rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 95.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Tallula gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 386 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tallula. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tallula, see the exposure-zones guide.