Illiopolis, IL
Illiopolis, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Illiopolis's 551 buildings earn a 1st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Illiopolis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Where Illiopolis's buildings actually sit
Illiopolis rates 96.9% Minimal exposure against just 3.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 551 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Illiopolis against the rest of the country
Illiopolis's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (11th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Illiopolis ranks 31,100 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,555 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,288 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Illiopolis and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Illiopolis rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Illiopolis's 96.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 551 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Illiopolis. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Illiopolis, see the exposure-zones guide.