Fayetteville, IL
Fayetteville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fayetteville at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 280 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 Fayetteville at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Fayetteville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 91.8% of Fayetteville's 280 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 8.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Fayetteville ranks
Compare Fayetteville's two percentiles: 43rd within Illinois, only 10th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fayetteville ranks 28,323 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,183 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 817 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fayetteville
At the 10th national percentile, Fayetteville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Fayetteville's 91.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fayetteville's 10th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fayetteville, see the exposure-zones guide.