Arenzville, IL
Arenzville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Arenzville lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 280 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 Arenzville at the 8th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Arenzville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Arenzville's buildings (72.1% of 280) 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.
How Arenzville compares
Compare Arenzville's two percentiles: 40th within Illinois, only 9th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arenzville ranks 28,795 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,182 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 868 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Arenzville and the insurance market
Arenzville's low wildfire rating (9th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 72.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Arenzville 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
Arenzville's 9th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Arenzville, see the exposure-zones guide.