Greenfield, IL
Greenfield, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenfield at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 768 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 Greenfield at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Where Greenfield's buildings actually sit
Most of Greenfield's buildings (85.4% of 768) 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.
Greenfield against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Greenfield ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (10th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenfield ranks 28,419 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,934 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 827 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
Greenfield's low wildfire rating (10th 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
Greenfield's 85.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Greenfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenfield's 28,419-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Greenfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.