Volo, IL
Volo wildfire risk explained
Volo's 1,934 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Volo at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 73.4% of Volo's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 26.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Volo against the rest of the country
Compare Volo's two percentiles: 84th within Illinois, only 33rd nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Volo ranks 21,137 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,666 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 233 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Volo and the insurance market
At the 33rd national percentile, Volo rates moderate 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
Volo's 73.4% 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
Volo's 33rd-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 Volo, see the exposure-zones guide.