Chrisman, IL
Chrisman wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Chrisman at the 4th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 868 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Chrisman's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 4th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 12.7% of Chrisman's 868 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Chrisman compares
Compare Chrisman's two percentiles: 23rd within Illinois, only 4th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chrisman ranks 30,341 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,002 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,112 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Chrisman and the insurance market
Chrisman's low wildfire rating (4th 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.
Hardening a home in Chrisman
Chrisman's 87.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Chrisman's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chrisman's 30,341-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chrisman's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.