Energy, IL
Energy wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Energy at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 668 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Energy at the 43rd percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Energy's building exposure, zone by zone
72.2% of Energy's 668 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 27.8% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Energy compares
Energy's 93rd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 40th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Energy ranks 18,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,980 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 106 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Energy and the insurance market
Energy's elevated wildfire rating (40th 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.
Hardening a home in Energy
Because 72.2% of Energy's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Energy's figures come from
Energy's 40th-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 Energy's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.