Kenney, IL
Kenney, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kenney at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 270 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kenney at the 8th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 93.7% of Kenney's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Kenney compares
Kenney's 38th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 8th 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, Kenney ranks 28,925 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,501 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 892 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Kenney and the insurance market
Kenney's low rating (8th 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 Kenney
Even with 93.7% of Kenney outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kenney's 28,925-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kenney, see the exposure-zones guide.