Baylis, IL
How exposed is Baylis to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Baylis lands at the 39th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 177 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 Baylis at the 40th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Baylis's building exposure, zone by zone
79.7% of Baylis's 177 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 20.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Baylis ranks
Within Illinois, Baylis ranks higher (91st percentile) than it does nationally (39th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Baylis ranks 19,247 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 126 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Baylis and the insurance market
Baylis's moderate rating (39th 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 Baylis
Because 79.7% of Baylis'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 Baylis's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Baylis's 19,247-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Baylis's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.