Burnt Prairie, IL
Burnt Prairie, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Burnt Prairie's 69 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Burnt Prairie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
Where Burnt Prairie's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 87% of Burnt Prairie's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Burnt Prairie ranks
Compare Burnt Prairie's two percentiles: 26th within Illinois, only 5th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burnt Prairie ranks 30,058 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,301 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,062 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Burnt Prairie
Burnt Prairie's low wildfire rating (5th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Burnt Prairie 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
Burnt Prairie'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 Burnt Prairie, see the exposure-zones guide.