Cooksville, IL
Cooksville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cooksville at the 0th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 159 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cooksville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 0th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 92.5% of Cooksville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Cooksville against the rest of the country
Cooksville scores 0th nationally and 0th within Illinois — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cooksville ranks 31,508 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,477 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,434 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cooksville
Cooksville's low wildfire rating (0th 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 Cooksville
With 92.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cooksville 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 159 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cooksville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cooksville, see the exposure-zones guide.