East St. Louis, IL
East St. Louis, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East St. Louis's 10,793 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East St. Louis at the 14th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
East St. Louis's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 96.7% of East St. Louis's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 10,793 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
East St. Louis against the rest of the country
Compare East St. Louis's two percentiles: 50th within Illinois, only 13th nationally — a gap of 37 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East St. Louis ranks 27,283 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,469 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 723 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East St. Louis
East St. Louis's low wildfire rating (13th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
East St. Louis's 96.7% 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
East St. Louis's 13th-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 East St. Louis, see the exposure-zones guide.