East Gillespie, IL
How exposed is East Gillespie to wildfire?
USFS scores East Gillespie at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 203 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Gillespie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Where East Gillespie's buildings actually sit
Only 21.2% of East Gillespie's 203 buildings carry Direct exposure and 4.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 73.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where East Gillespie ranks
Within Illinois, East Gillespie ranks higher (31st percentile) than it does nationally (6th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Gillespie ranks 29,678 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,721 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 993 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Gillespie
East Gillespie's low rating (6th 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 East Gillespie
East Gillespie's 73.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 203 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Gillespie. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Gillespie, see the exposure-zones guide.