Biggsville, IL
Biggsville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Biggsville sits at the 18th 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 238 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Biggsville at the 18th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
Where Biggsville's buildings actually sit
Only 5.9% of Biggsville's 238 buildings carry Direct exposure and 46.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 47.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Biggsville ranks
Compare Biggsville's two percentiles: 58th within Illinois, only 18th nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Biggsville ranks 25,897 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,522 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 603 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
Biggsville's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 47.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Biggsville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Biggsville's 25,897-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Biggsville, see the exposure-zones guide.