Keenes, IL
Keenes wildfire risk explained
Keenes's 74 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Keenes at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Keenes's buildings actually sit
Most of Keenes's buildings (87.8% of 74) 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.
How Keenes compares
Keenes's 30th-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, Keenes ranks 29,838 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,122 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,014 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
Keenes's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Keenes
With 87.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Keenes 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
Keenes's 5th-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 Keenes, see the exposure-zones guide.