Wood River, IL
Wood River, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wood River at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 5,795 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 Wood River at the 12th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Wood River's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Wood River's buildings (97.4% of 5,795) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 5,795 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Wood River compares
Wood River's 46th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 11th 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, Wood River ranks 27,915 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,984 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 786 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wood River
At the 11th national percentile, Wood River 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
With 97.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Wood River gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Wood River's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wood River's 27,915-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wood River's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.