Lynnville, IL
How exposed is Lynnville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lynnville lands at the 3rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 90 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lynnville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
Lynnville's building exposure, zone by zone
Lynnville rates 92.2% Minimal exposure against just 7.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 90 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Lynnville ranks
Lynnville's 18th-percentile standing inside Illinois outpaces its 3rd 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, Lynnville ranks 30,690 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,190 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lynnville
Lynnville's low wildfire rating (3rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Lynnville's 92.2% 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.
Where Lynnville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lynnville's 30,690-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lynnville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.