Breese, IL
Breese, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Breese sits at the 5th 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 2,412 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Breese's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 96.2% of Breese's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Breese compares
Breese's 28th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 5th 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, Breese ranks 29,994 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,487 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,042 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
Breese's low rating (5th 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 Breese
With 96.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Breese 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
Breese's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Breese, see the exposure-zones guide.