Kaskaskia, IL
Kaskaskia wildfire risk explained
Kaskaskia sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 35 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kaskaskia at the 5th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Kaskaskia's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 14.3% of Kaskaskia's 35 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 80% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Kaskaskia against the rest of the country
Kaskaskia's 29th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 5th 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, Kaskaskia ranks 29,936 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,268 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,029 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kaskaskia
Kaskaskia's low wildfire rating (5th 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
Kaskaskia's 80% 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 35 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kaskaskia. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kaskaskia, see the exposure-zones guide.