Alsey, IL
How exposed is Alsey to wildfire?
Alsey sits at the 14th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 183 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alsey at the 14th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
91.8% of Alsey's 183 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 8.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Alsey compares
Compare Alsey's two percentiles: 52nd within Illinois, only 14th nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alsey ranks 26,969 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,493 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 692 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Alsey and the insurance market
Alsey's low wildfire rating (14th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Alsey
Because 91.8% of Alsey's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Alsey's figures come from
Alsey's 14th-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 Alsey's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.