White Hall, IL
White Hall wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, White Hall lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,602 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts White Hall at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 86.5% of White Hall's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How White Hall compares
Compare White Hall's two percentiles: 41st within Illinois, only 9th nationally — a gap of 32 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, White Hall ranks 28,580 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,763 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 852 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
White Hall and the insurance market
At the 9th national percentile, White Hall rates low 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
White Hall's 86.5% 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
White Hall's 9th-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 White Hall, see the exposure-zones guide.