Brownstown, IL
Brownstown, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brownstown sits at the 16th 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 490 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brownstown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Where Brownstown's buildings actually sit
79.2% of Brownstown's 490 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 20.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Brownstown compares
Brownstown's 54th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 16th 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, Brownstown ranks 26,557 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,526 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 664 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Brownstown and the insurance market
Brownstown's low rating (16th 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 Brownstown
With 79.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brownstown 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 Brownstown's 26,557-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownstown, see the exposure-zones guide.