Edwardsville, IL
How exposed is Edwardsville to wildfire?
Edwardsville sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 9,814 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Edwardsville at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Edwardsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 13.4% of Edwardsville's 9,814 buildings carry Direct exposure and 24% carry Indirect; the remaining 62.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,814 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Edwardsville compares
Within Illinois, Edwardsville ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (10th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edwardsville ranks 28,322 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,658 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 816 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
Edwardsville's low rating (10th 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 Edwardsville
Edwardsville's 62.6% 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 9,814 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Edwardsville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Edwardsville, see the exposure-zones guide.