Wonder Lake, IL
Wonder Lake, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wonder Lake at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,811 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wonder Lake at the 30th 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
Wonder Lake rates 57.5% Minimal exposure against just 34.5% Direct and 8% Indirect — of 1,811 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Wonder Lake ranks
Within Illinois, Wonder Lake ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wonder Lake ranks 22,464 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,030 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 325 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Wonder Lake and the insurance market
Wonder Lake's moderate rating (29th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 57.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Wonder Lake 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 1,811 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wonder Lake. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wonder Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.