Lawrenceville, IL
How exposed is Lawrenceville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lawrenceville lands at the 15th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,677 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lawrenceville at the 15th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lawrenceville's buildings actually sit
Most of Lawrenceville's buildings (92.5%) 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.
How Lawrenceville compares
Lawrenceville's 52nd-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 15th 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, Lawrenceville ranks 26,906 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,968 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 688 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Lawrenceville and the insurance market
Lawrenceville's low wildfire rating (15th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 92.5% of Lawrenceville'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.
Where Lawrenceville's figures come from
Lawrenceville's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lawrenceville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.