Greenville, IL
Greenville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenville at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,745 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 Greenville at the 13th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
72.6% of Greenville's 2,745 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 14.9% Direct and 12.5% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Greenville compares
Greenville's 48th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 13th 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, Greenville ranks 27,504 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,857 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 750 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
Greenville's low wildfire rating (13th 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
Greenville's 72.6% 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
Greenville's 13th-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 Greenville, see the exposure-zones guide.