Johnston City, IL
Johnston City, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Johnston City's 2,379 buildings earn a 39th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Johnston City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 41st percentile nationally.
Where Johnston City's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 49.7% of Johnston City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 14% Direct and 36.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Johnston City against the rest of the country
Compare Johnston City's two percentiles: 92nd within Illinois, only 39th nationally — a gap of 53 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Johnston City ranks 19,184 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,552 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 122 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
Johnston City's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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.
Hardening a home in Johnston City
With 49.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Johnston City gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,379 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Johnston City. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Johnston City, see the exposure-zones guide.