Danville, IL
Danville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Danville at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 15,554 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Danville at the 14th national percentile — 1 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
Only 10.9% of Danville's 15,554 buildings carry Direct exposure and 23.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 66% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 15,554 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Danville against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Danville ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Danville ranks 27,252 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 950 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 719 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Danville and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Danville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 66% of Danville 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.
Where Danville's figures come from
Danville's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Danville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.