Alexis, IL
Alexis wildfire risk explained
Alexis's 539 buildings earn a 2nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alexis at the 2nd percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Alexis's building exposure, zone by zone
Alexis rates 95.4% Minimal exposure against just 4.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 539 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Alexis against the rest of the country
Alexis's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alexis ranks 30,814 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,728 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,213 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Alexis and the insurance market
At the 2nd national percentile, Alexis rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 95.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Alexis gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Alexis's figures come from
Alexis's 2nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Alexis's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.