Godfrey, IL
Godfrey wildfire risk explained
Godfrey sits at the 21st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 8,965 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Godfrey's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
Godfrey's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Godfrey's buildings (46.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 8,965 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Godfrey against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Godfrey ranks higher (63rd percentile) than it does nationally (21st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Godfrey ranks 24,984 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,857 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 534 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Godfrey
Godfrey's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Godfrey's 46.2% 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
Godfrey's 21st-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 Godfrey, see the exposure-zones guide.