Green Valley, IL
Green Valley, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Green Valley at the 2nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 405 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Green Valley at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Green Valley's buildings actually sit
Most of Green Valley's buildings (99% of 405) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Green Valley ranks
There's little gap between Green Valley's 2nd national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Valley ranks 30,975 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,119 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,250 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Green Valley's low wildfire rating (2nd 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
Even with 99% of Green Valley 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 405 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Green Valley. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Green Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.