Du Quoin, IL
How exposed is Du Quoin to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Du Quoin lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,695 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Du Quoin at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Where Du Quoin's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 48.2% of Du Quoin's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.7% Direct and 35.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Du Quoin ranks
Compare Du Quoin's two percentiles: 77th within Illinois, only 28th nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Du Quoin ranks 22,681 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,533 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 338 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Du Quoin's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 48.2% of Du Quoin 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
Du Quoin's 28th-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 Du Quoin, see the exposure-zones guide.