Kincaid, IL
How exposed is Kincaid to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kincaid lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 939 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kincaid's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Where Kincaid's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Kincaid (51% of 939 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 6.1% sit in the Direct zone.
Kincaid against the rest of the country
Compare Kincaid's two percentiles: 63rd within Illinois, only 20th nationally — a gap of 42 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kincaid ranks 25,077 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,400 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 543 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Kincaid and the insurance market
Kincaid's moderate wildfire rating (20th 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 Kincaid
Because 51% of Kincaid'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kincaid's 25,077-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kincaid, see the exposure-zones guide.