Franklin, IL
Franklin, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Franklin lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 439 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Franklin at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Where Franklin's buildings actually sit
Only 4.6% of Franklin's 439 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 95.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Franklin compares
Franklin's 33rd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 6th 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, Franklin ranks 29,490 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,477 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 966 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Franklin and the insurance market
Franklin's low rating (6th 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 95.4% of Franklin 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.
More on how this number was built
Franklin's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Franklin, see the exposure-zones guide.