Woodstock, IL
Woodstock wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Woodstock lands at the 26th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 8,772 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 Woodstock at the 27th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Where Woodstock's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 88.2% of Woodstock's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 11.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,772 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Woodstock against the rest of the country
Compare Woodstock's two percentiles: 73rd within Illinois, only 26th nationally — a gap of 47 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodstock ranks 23,350 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,902 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 393 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Woodstock and the insurance market
Woodstock's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Woodstock
With 88.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Woodstock gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Woodstock's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodstock's 23,350-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Woodstock's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.