Damiansville, IL
Damiansville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Damiansville at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 288 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Damiansville at the 9th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 58% of Damiansville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.7% Direct and 25.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Damiansville against the rest of the country
Compare Damiansville's two percentiles: 40th within Illinois, only 9th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Damiansville ranks 28,797 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,956 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 870 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Damiansville and the insurance market
Damiansville's low rating (9th 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 Damiansville
Even with 58% of Damiansville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Damiansville's 9th-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 Damiansville, see the exposure-zones guide.