Auburn, IL
How exposed is Auburn to wildfire?
Auburn sits at the 4th 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 2,277 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Auburn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
Auburn's building exposure, zone by zone
Auburn rates 94.7% Minimal exposure against just 5.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,277 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Auburn compares
Auburn's 24th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 4th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Auburn ranks 30,246 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,752 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,097 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Auburn
Auburn's low rating (4th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Auburn's 94.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Auburn's 30,246-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Auburn, see the exposure-zones guide.