Beecher City, IL
How exposed is Beecher City to wildfire?
Beecher City's 333 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beecher City at the 20th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Beecher City's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 44.1% of Beecher City's 333 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 55.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Beecher City compares
Within Illinois, Beecher City ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (19th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beecher City ranks 25,423 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,731 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 571 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Beecher City and the insurance market
Beecher City's low rating (19th 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
Beecher City's 55.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 333 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Beecher City. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Beecher City, see the exposure-zones guide.