Inverness, IL
Inverness, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Inverness sits at the 29th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,797 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Inverness at the 30th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Inverness's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 44.8% of Inverness's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 33.9% Direct and 21.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Inverness against the rest of the country
Within Illinois, Inverness ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Inverness ranks 22,368 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,767 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 316 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Inverness
At the 29th national percentile, Inverness rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Inverness's 44.8% 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
Inverness's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Inverness, see the exposure-zones guide.