Ashland, IL
How exposed is Ashland to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Ashland lands at the 0th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 871 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ashland at the 0th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ashland's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1.7% of Ashland's 871 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Ashland ranks
Ashland scores 0th nationally and 3rd within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ashland ranks 31,411 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,972 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,385 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Ashland and the insurance market
At the 0th national percentile, Ashland rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Ashland
With 98.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ashland 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
Ashland's 0th-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 Ashland, see the exposure-zones guide.