Batavia, IL
Batavia, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Batavia lands at the 26th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 10,066 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Batavia at the 26th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Batavia's buildings actually sit
Only 3.6% of Batavia's 10,066 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 96.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 10,066 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Batavia compares
Compare Batavia's two percentiles: 73rd within Illinois, only 26th nationally — a gap of 47 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Batavia ranks 23,346 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,596 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 389 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Batavia's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Batavia
With 96.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Batavia gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Batavia's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Batavia's 23,346-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Batavia's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.