Fillmore, IL
Fillmore, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Fillmore at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 271 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 Fillmore at the 25th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Fillmore's buildings actually sit
271 buildings are counted in Fillmore, and 68.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 31.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Fillmore ranks
Compare Fillmore's two percentiles: 70th within Illinois, only 24th nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fillmore ranks 23,822 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 433 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Fillmore and the insurance market
At the 24th national percentile, Fillmore rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Fillmore's 68.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 271 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fillmore. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fillmore, see the exposure-zones guide.