Goreville, IL
Goreville, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Goreville at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 756 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 Goreville at the 53rd percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Goreville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 71.6% of Goreville's 756 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.2% Direct and 0.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Goreville ranks
Goreville's 99th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 51st 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, Goreville ranks 15,496 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,050 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 23 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Goreville and the insurance market
Goreville's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Goreville (71.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 756 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Goreville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Goreville, see the exposure-zones guide.