Granville, IL
Granville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Granville at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 853 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Granville at the 9th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Granville rates 95% Minimal exposure against just 5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 853 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Granville ranks
Compare Granville's two percentiles: 39th within Illinois, only 9th nationally — a gap of 31 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Granville ranks 28,831 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 878 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Granville and the insurance market
Granville's low rating (9th 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% of Granville 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Granville's 28,831-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Granville, see the exposure-zones guide.