Manlius, IL
Manlius, IL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Manlius lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 258 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Manlius at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Manlius's buildings actually sit
Manlius rates 90.3% Minimal exposure against just 9.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 258 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Manlius compares
There's little gap between Manlius's 2nd national percentile and its 15th percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Manlius ranks 30,880 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,881 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,230 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Manlius's low wildfire rating (2nd 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
Even with 90.3% of Manlius outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Manlius's 30,880-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Manlius, see the exposure-zones guide.