Verona, IL
How exposed is Verona to wildfire?
Verona's 149 buildings earn a 4th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Verona's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
Where Verona's buildings actually sit
Only 12.8% of Verona's 149 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Verona against the rest of the country
Verona's 22nd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 4th 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, Verona ranks 30,405 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,908 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,122 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Verona and the insurance market
Verona's low wildfire rating (4th 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 Verona
Verona's 87.3% 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
Verona's 4th-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 Verona, see the exposure-zones guide.