Kings, IL
Kings wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kings lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 113 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kings's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Kings rates 90.3% Minimal exposure against just 9.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 113 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Kings compares
Kings's risk sits at a similar level relative to Illinois (5th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kings ranks 31,350 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,493 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,362 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Kings and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Kings 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
Kings's 90.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kings's 31,350-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kings, see the exposure-zones guide.