Mascoutah, IL
How exposed is Mascoutah to wildfire?
Mascoutah's 3,631 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mascoutah's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Mascoutah's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 57.2% of Mascoutah's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.8% Direct and 37% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Mascoutah compares
Compare Mascoutah's two percentiles: 33rd within Illinois, only 7th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mascoutah ranks 29,460 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 963 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Mascoutah and the insurance market
Mascoutah's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 57.2% of Mascoutah 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
Mascoutah's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mascoutah, see the exposure-zones guide.