Fairview Heights, IL
How exposed is Fairview Heights to wildfire?
USFS scores Fairview Heights at the 13th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 7,888 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fairview Heights at the 14th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Fairview Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Fairview Heights rates 75% Minimal exposure against just 25% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,888 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,888 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Fairview Heights ranks
Fairview Heights's 50th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 13th 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, Fairview Heights ranks 27,284 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,148 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 724 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Fairview Heights and the insurance market
Fairview Heights's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 75% of Fairview Heights 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.
Where Fairview Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,888 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fairview Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fairview Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.