West Peoria, IL
West Peoria wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Peoria at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,970 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Peoria at the 18th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0.9% of West Peoria's 2,970 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How West Peoria compares
Compare West Peoria's two percentiles: 55th within Illinois, only 16th nationally — a gap of 39 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Peoria ranks 26,372 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,483 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 650 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
West Peoria and the insurance market
West Peoria's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.1% of West Peoria 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,970 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Peoria. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Peoria, see the exposure-zones guide.