Kilbourne, IL
Kilbourne wildfire risk explained
Kilbourne's 268 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kilbourne at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Kilbourne's buildings actually sit
Most of Kilbourne's buildings (54.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Kilbourne against the rest of the country
Kilbourne's 35th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 7th 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, Kilbourne ranks 29,271 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,561 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 936 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kilbourne
At the 7th national percentile, Kilbourne rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 54.5% of Kilbourne's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 268 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kilbourne. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kilbourne, see the exposure-zones guide.