Belleville, IL
Belleville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Belleville lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 19,894 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Belleville at the 10th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Belleville's buildings actually sit
Only 4.7% of Belleville's 19,894 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 19,894 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Belleville against the rest of the country
Belleville's 42nd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 10th 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, Belleville ranks 28,481 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 709 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 836 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belleville
Belleville's low rating (10th 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
Even with 95.2% of Belleville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Belleville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belleville's 28,481-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Belleville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.