Hutsonville, IL
How exposed is Hutsonville to wildfire?
USFS scores Hutsonville at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 392 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hutsonville at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Hutsonville's buildings (61.7% of 392) 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.
Hutsonville against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Hutsonville ranks higher (34th percentile) than it does nationally (7th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hutsonville ranks 29,367 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,363 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 951 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Hutsonville and the insurance market
Hutsonville's low wildfire rating (7th 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
Hutsonville's 61.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hutsonville's 29,367-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hutsonville, see the exposure-zones guide.